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Four Harvard students did exactly that on five Thursday evenings this fall, as they listened to music, munched on pizza and played Trivial Pursuit under the influence of a little pink pill of mysterious nature. Their salary...
...Year of the Calendar. Some 1,500 different wall and desk versions, including a circular pop-up of flowers and ones with detachable postcards, celebrating everything from cats to Culture Club, are being snapped up at a phenomenal pace. Some favorites have earned second press runs; 250,000 Trivial Pursuit (QuillMark) calendars sold out in the U.S. and Canada in a month, and Cabbage Patch Kids (Abrams) has been bought by 1.4 million doll lovers. Says Michael Ritz, promotions director of Abbeville Press, where eight of 15 calendars are sellouts: "It's just an amazing year...
...months most of the scraps from the election will be left to trivial pursuers. Who said "Where's the beef?" How old is Gary Hartpence? Certain things will not be so readily forgotten: Mario Cuomo's keynote address at the Democratic Convention at one extreme, and George Bush's gee-whillikerisms at the other. The television debates-strangely useless and useful-will await their playbacks in 1988. Two forces in American politics certainly will not go away: women and blacks. Two issues, abortion and church and state, will not go away either. It should be interesting...
...involves a rerouting of blood through the heart so that the right ventricle takes over the pumping function normally performed by the left ventricle. Norwood says that of 100 infants he has treated, 40 have survived; the oldest is now four. But, he admits, the procedure "is not a trivial business and if one intends to have serious impact on this disease, numerous alternatives have to be explored...
Reagan radiated the politics of optimism, attaching himself to the flag, bal loons and the Olympics (the summer's one really popular event). He deplored criticism of his policies as negativism. That included the press as well: in matters serious (the invasion of Grenada) and trivial, the Reagan Administration had effectively excluded the press. The President stopped holding press conferences that might embarrass him; so did George Bush. But outcries from the press against such high-handedness were muted by the discovery that the public seemed not much concerned. It is this constant sensitivity to public reactions- endemic...