Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sketch bought anyway, visualizing the journalistic impact of Jane's thighs and sighs ("Shiv is mine! I won't let her take him away from me"). The editors packed her, Reporter Benson, a photographer and a staff sob sister onto the next plane to Naples, to confront the unsuspecting Shiv. Twenty-three thousand feet over Anzio, Italy, minutes short of Naples, the Viscount bearing Jane and company and 22 other passengers was rammed by an Italian air force jet. Dead with all the rest: the Sketch four, in pursuit of an essentially phony story...
...played the first couple of numbers straight-the melody always there, easy and obvious. Then she leered from between her big rhinestone earrings and let the crowd know that she was about to take off. She basted Lazy River with a wild boogie beat. Her knees bounced up and down like runaway jackhammers. She jumped from her bench as if kicked by a mule, grimaced like an ulcer case on the way out, writhed like a belly dancer, sucked her thumb, tugged at her bra, groaned. Sometimes she struck some keys with her elbow, but she never missed a note...
...Texan) for the truth is, he thinks the market is still too small. "There really aren't enough TV westerns," says Gruber. "Now there are 35 hours of prime time a week on seven channels-that's 245 hours of prime time and westerns only take up 18 hours. Why, that's less than 10% of the time...
...theory behind this policy is that the student will specialize during his last year, taking courses in the century in which his thesis falls. But since the first draft of the thesis in to be completed by December, no course taken in Senior year can have very much bearing on it, and students will want to take courses relevant to their special area prior to starting work on the thesis. The alternatives, again, are either to be badly prepared for the extremely crucial orals, or else to take a disproportionate number of courses in an extremely limited area...
...appointment, which will not exceed two years' duration, will take Elder into the field very quickly," the source said. He will soon address groups of graduate school deans in Chicago, Boston and San Francisco, explaining the program and estimating the proportion of funds expendable in different institutions. It is uncertain as yet how much of the two years the Dean will spend away from Cambridge...