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...Ruhr, an industrial base that had been only partly destroyed by British and American bombs. The East got the fields and forests of northeast Prussia and Saxony. Instead of standing for the Deutsche Demokratische Republik, the East Germans joked, the initials D.D.R. stood for Der Doofe Rest-"the stupid leftovers...
...Defenders aired a show dealing with abortion. The advertisers complained, but public letters to CBS were overwhelmingly in favor of the show's sensitive consideration of the problem. Eleven years later, all the dramatic series of the early 60s are gone, and the controversy is over a stupid show called Maude...
UNCLE VANYA. Three screenings of a BBC film of Laurence Olivier's 1962 Chichester Festival production of the Anton Chekhov play. It's a great play, and with a cast headed by Olivier, Joan Plowright, Michael Redgrave, Sybil Thorndike, and Rosemary Harris, missing it would be pretty stupid. Sunday at 6 and 9, Monday at 8, at the Loeb...
THEY WERE CLEVER, though. The normal Clever Caller would follow up a polite introduction with a catch-her-off-balance fast jab, "What are you doing now?" And I'd be stupid and fumble for excuses, "I'm studying." "Great, then you'll need a coffee break." Panicked, "Well, actually, I was going to sleep." His oh-so-cool and patient laugh, "Oh come on now. At 10 p.m.?" "Yeah, well, I got bored." "Great. I'm downstairs" (the dorm was guarded by a switchboard) "I'll come right up and entertain you." At which point, having let myself...
...three beers, I enjoy talking about my ex-roommate who liked peanut butter and bologna sandwiches, about the night four of us inched across the Adams House roof to break into the pool at 2 a.m. I like talking about The Crimson comp, about loud concerts, and stupid jokes my drinking partner has heard also...