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From that time on, Brandeis grew steadily worse, the fans grew tired from the plethora of fouls -- 50 in all -- and Harvard began to swish at will. The Crimson finished with a superb 60 per cent field goal percentage, to a poor 38 per cent for the home team. HARVARD The Scoring FG F T Gallagher 7 7 21 Royer 6 3 15 Dressler 4 4 12 Grate 4 1 9 Beller 1 5 7 Johnson 2 3 7 Kanuth 2 0 4 Bailey 2 0 4 Mankowski 1 1 3 Griswold 1 0 2 Waickowski 0 1 1 Total...
...several varieties of homosexuals that the heterosexual world lumps together but that "feel an irrepressible loathing for one another." Today in the U.S., there are "mixed" bars where all homosexuals, male and female, are persona grata; "cuff-linky" bars that cater to the college and junior-executive type; "swish" bars for the effeminates and "hair fairies" with their careful coiffures; "TV" bars, which cater not to television fans but to transvestites; "leather" bars for the tough-guy types with their fondness for chains and belts; San Francisco's new "Topless Boys" discotheques, featuring bare-chested entertainers. San Francisco...
Conformism was out--so they served martinis in brandy snifters. "Something a MAN can hold onto, and swish around. Nothing effeminate around here," the PR man said. Maybe the idea will catch on, and no home will be complete without a glass, plus contents...
Good Manners. In Chicago, where two armories provided tennis fans their only outlet for 20 years, eleven indoor emporiums now thrive, including the swish two-year-old courts in suburban Winnetka financed by the Arthur C. Nielsens (of ratings fame) and the swish Lake Bluff Bath and Tennis Club, whose ultra-exclusive membership (an applicant must have "good tennis manners and be a nice person") has access to squash courts, an ice-skating rink, sauna and toboggan hill in addition to two quality indoor courts. Even Washington, D.C., minus a single indoor club to its name until last fall, today...
...short order, Martin develops a tingling interest in Palmer's half sister Honor Klein, an eerie anthropologist given to such parlor tricks as decapitating a kabuki doll with one swish of a samurai sword. Even more unnervingly, she turns out to be sleeping with her half brother. By this time, Georgie has taken up with Martin's brother, a sculptor. The final curtain finds Palmer with Georgie, Antonia with the sculptor, and Martin with Honor Klein...