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Rebuffed by Alison and bummed by Ivy life in general, Gib, tantalized by his best friend lance's tales of a sexual sure thing ("Every relationship begins with a one-night stand") decides to head for the robust UCIA beauty. Since Alison is on her way to swap law articles with her similarly situated boy friend, the pair end up hitching their way to California together, a la It Happened One Night. Somewhere between playing a madman psychotic to scare a lecherous truck driver off of Alison and trying to identify the three categories of junk food. John Cusack manages...
...most common lament of stage actresses is a lack of good parts for older women. The Octette Bridge Club, a comedy about eight matronly Irish Catholic sisters who meet every other Friday during the 1930s and 1940s to play cards and swap stories, remedies that problem. The narrative is slight and achieves its climaxes by announcing rather than portraying them. But the current production displays some of Broadway's most skilled actresses demonstrating how to employ the briefest dialogue to imply unspoken volumes. Playwright Barry keeps the inner lives of the sisters well guarded, by intention: he means to examine...
Backed into a corner, the Phillips board huddled on Sunday, March 3, and came up with a sweetener that finally satisfied Icahn. It offered to swap IOUs with a face value of $62 each for half of Phillips' outstanding shares. The plan would add $4.5 billion to Phillips' corporate debt, raising it to $7.3 billion. That would equal 75% of the firm's total worth, well above the typical 40% to 50% level for American industry...
...raise soybeans one year, rice the next, winter rye the next, and then begin the cycle again. Over the years nothing much changes in Mamou. The boys in this culture are expected to mature into good providers and two-fisted drinkers, and the girls are expected to marry and swap obsequiousness for fidelity and adulation. The blacks are expected to know their place. (The night before Mardi Gras six or seven blacks fought it out with a throng of whites in the middle of town, and as the fists and beer cans flew, the police, including some black officers...
...California analogy can be further expanded. We have many rocks (you can find them on the beaches and on the tennis courts) and a wide variety of minorities throughout the state. However, we are lacking in preps and, it can be argued, in intellectuals. Maybe we could arrange a swap where we could send minorities to the Midwest gays to the South and valley girls to New England in exchange for some preps, intellectuals and an occasional Southern uhra-conservative fanatic. This way we would have a nice random mix of people throughout the country Think of how much...