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...Boston College, students recently held a rejection party, limited to those who could produce a turndown letter from a prospective employer. No one there was tactless enough to ask, "What are you doing in September?" And one senior wears a button with an inscription that answers the question for many seniors across the country this spring: YES ... I'M A SENIOR. NO ... I DON'T KNOW AND DON'T ASK! -By Ellie McGrath...
...been stung badly by the defeat, and most particularly by comments that the Reagans had restored some class to the White House. Carter was so enraged he was ready to punch one disparaging writer, but he says he has since forgiven him. Rosalynn is not that easy. When a tactless old friend teased her recently about laying out a tablecloth for lunch, saying that Nancy Reagan surely would have approved, she glared at him, unamused...
...Bergman forced the 62-year-old Ingrid to unmask herself in Autumn Sonata, a film about a professional pianist who has sacrificed her affections to her career. The actress did not spare the moody Ingmar her frank opinions about his script and direction, but he came to admire this tactless spontaneity that is the key to her nature. Speaking Swedish, her own language, at last, instead of one not perfectly mastered, she gave a scalding performance...
Part of this uneasiness doubtless stems from Neuharth's style. His sense of humor is barbed, sometimes tactless, and he is a notorious practical joker. His first wife, Loretta, was once arrested after he devilishly reported their car stolen. At a party a few years ago, he persuaded all 19 men present to give him their ties and then left; he never did return the ties. Neuharth dresses expensively, and always in black, white and gray. He jogs at dawn-in a black-and-white track suit. Associates call him the Black Prince. Says Ron Martin, editor...
...Connally is tactless, he is also tainted. Big John's close ties with former President Nixon and the shadows of the milk-fund scandal certainly have not helped his cause. In an uncharacteristically hesitant tone, Connally recently sideswiped a reporter's question about how, as President, he would deal with the report that Treasury Secretary G. William Miller's onetime charge, Textron Inc., bribed foreign officials. "I wouldn't pass judgment on whether or not he knew or whether he should have known," Connally said. "That's something that I don't have the information on which to base...