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DIED. Virginia Fox Zanuck, 83, once Buster Keaton's leading lady, Mack Sennett's tiniest bathing beauty, and in 1924 Movie Tycoon Darryl F. Zanuck's storybook bride (although they did not live happily ever after); of a lung infection; in Santa Monica, Calif. The petite (4 ft. 9 in.) Virginia Fox gave up her acting career when she met Zanuck, then a struggling scriptwriter, on a blind date. A renowned Hollywood hostess, she zealously sang his praises for years, but the marriage was later marred by Darryl's persistent extramarital affairs and by much publicized...
...town largely pre-occupied with national productions bound for the Big Apple, the goal was appropriately modest: Dancin' in the Street!, a musical revue offering 33 Motown hits by singers-dancers and a six-piece band, was supposed to occupy the Next Move, one of Boston's tiniest stages, for the better part of a month...
...freedom of information and prejudice. Bigotry survives, economic cost regardless, and probably will continue for along, long time. As approximations go, rationality has served the world of economists well, but so have fairies and demons the world of storytellers. Certain remembrances of the real world might be only the tiniest grain of salt that readers need to take Posner's theories...
...racial incidents on campus. There's little the University can do, though, in the way of short-run remedies. Until Harvard can replace the Indoor Athletic Building or buy out Lesley College and build a new House in either's place--don't hold your breath--only the tiniest reductions in crowding will be possible. The University simply can't slash the size of entering classes, and its tuition intake, to decongest the Houses...
After watching the Eagle careen around its mile-long track, I was definitely not psyched. So I decided on a plan for working my way up to the Mt. Everest of roller coasters--I would ride the park's lesser ones first. The name of the tiniest one should have been enough to turn me away. "Willard's Whizzer" whirled like the spin-dry cycle of a washing machine, and anything that goes in circles makes me sick. I rode it anyway...