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While such connections lend themselves well to personal sketches and amusing little stories, they create problems for Nichols in writing the sort of meaningful criticism to which he apparently aspires. He seems at times so busy avoiding stepping on any toes that he has trouble standing in one place very long, for fear that some official toe might appear underfoot...
Says he: "There are enough strains on you here already." Indeed, V.M.I, students are still expected to toe the traditional rat line, a punishingly rigid code of behavior made famous by the 1938 movie Brother Rat (featuring Ronald Reagan). The Citadel has only slightly eased its own version of the code. At meals, for example, freshmen, or "knobs," are no longer required to sit at attention and request each helping from an upperclassman...
That may be so, but few Americans are willing to admit it, especially the huddled and teeming masses trying to reduce. "Thighs, thighs, go away! Give them all to Doris Day!" Puffing, giggling matrons in lumpy leotards attempt toe touches while being taped in a Hollywood studio. The electric-haired, slender cheerleader who puts the women through their paces (and chants) for an installment of his syndicated talk show is Richard Simmons, 33, the leading media star of fitness...
From head to toe, every square inch of Jodie is what attracts me. She reached her peak when she was twelve and then she reached a second peak following March 30, '81. Jodie's got the look I crave. What else can I say? It drives me crazy just looking at some of her photographs. Her voice and smile put stars in my eyes and send shivers everywhere. I only hope Yale doesn't destroy Jodie. Four years at that place is enough to ravage anyone. I tried to rescue her once, and it looks like...
...aides during his early months in office for sleepwalking through his job and being notably sluggish in guiding the Justice Department by the lights of Reagan philosophy. The Reaganites grumbled that the department was veering "out of control" and complained that Smith was failing to make his career bureaucrats toe the conservative line...