Word: teething
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peter Shapiro's article, "Strikers from '69," (The Crimson, Fri. April 19) is a thoroughly dishonest attempt to increase student cynicism, and the part about me, called "We," (?!) is icing on the cake. Having seen other, equally sincere-seeming reporters lie through their teeth in print, I was willing to talk to Shapiro only because he promised I could check the accuracy of quotes before press time. The fact that Shapiro broke his promise is understandable. If he'd removed all the out-of-context quotes (not to mention the even more numerous invented ones!) there would have been nothing...
...male patrons. He invited her to stop at his apartment for a drink. She had to fend off a rape attempt, suffering a broken jaw and scarring cuts on the face. "I thought I'd hit the bottom before," she says through the wires that still hold her teeth together, "but now I realized that this...
...sense of authenticity. He has used a similar care in the choice of his actors: many of those in Thieves are non-professionals. These include the producer's wife, and star Shelley Duvall, who plays Bowie's girlfriend Keechie. Duvall is a gentle-looking woman with large eyes, large teeth and a peculiar beauty in her homeliness. Altman met her at a party in Houston while shooting Brewster McCloud and cast her in the film. She has never had any professional training, but it was not the simple story it appears at first glance. "We worked with her a long...
Coach Hank Stram-who had been scheduled to conduct twice-daily clinics on the pro game. "We shaved with champagne and brushed our teeth with Scotch," says Palmeri. "It really was an adventure. We were all one big family...
...make unequal things equal. He held instead that "equals ought to have equality" and recalled the retort of the lions, in the fable of Antisthenes, when in the council of the beasts the hares began haranguing for equality for all. "Where," asked the lions, "are your claws and teeth?" Still, more than claws and teeth are presumed to be estimable in civilized society. This is why the undue emphasis on economic inequality in American life, which puts such a premium on acquisitiveness, is an erratic measure of individual worth...