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...think that at a place like Harvard people will want to hear different points of view," Nelson said yesterday. "I don't think they'll tar and feather him, but I don't think the Harvard reaction will be positive," he added...
...professional rhythm. The actors, however mechanically they drone their lines, pick up on cues and set the swift pace essential for building and maintaining tension. Gerber displays a deft hand for creating effective stage pictures. When Mary extorts the gossip from her schoolmates that she will use to tar Karen and Martha, Gerber places her high above them on a ladder, smiling evilly down on the hapless girls. Again, during the scene of Mary's accusation, Gerber stands the teachers just outside the room, their faces shadowed by elaborate lattice doors...
...must be prepared in advance for the virtual or entire absence of: air conditioning, ice water, ice cubes, ice cream, poached eggs, hamburgers, French fries, lamb chops, orange juice, cocktails, nightclubs, good grape wine, potable soft drinks (a prevalent banana concoction tastes like carbonated Brylcreem); cigars, low-tar cigarettes and Di-Gel; Kleenex, Band-Aids, shower curtains, shoeshines; and, with no sense of loss, lawns, pubs, sidewalk cafes, casinos, credit cards, commercials, news, Muzak, golf courses, public tennis courts, headwaiters, muggers and prostitutes...
...more coal than firms that specialize in coal mining, are active in uranium production and solar power research. Exxon and Gulf are partners with Cities Service and the Canadian government in Syncrude, a company that will open a plant designed to squeeze oil at last from the famed Athabasca tar sands. The sands, in northern Alberta, have long been known to contain gigantic amounts of petroleum, but up to now the cost of extracting it has not been justified by the price. Some of the Sisters have moved heavily into metals, a field in which their geologists have considerable expertise...
Though the report does not say that smoking these brands is totally safe, it does indicate that smoking these "low-tar" cigarettes in low quantities poses "no apparent risk," Gio Batta Gori, head of the NIH smoking and health program, said yesterday...