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...achieve authenticity, some costume dramas force characters to pronounce every word without benefit of contractions-the isn'ts, don'ts and can'ts that make speech bearable. Wisely opting for today's idiom, Scriptwriter Jack Pulman occasionally falls into the opposite trap, with lines like "The Parthians are at it again, always stirring up trouble!" And Pulman doubtless was merely having fun when he put in Livia's mouth Mae West's famous line...
Johnson expressed the need for more open, on-campus parties because the great number of activities in the Boston-Cambridge area tend to draw stude ts in different directions...
Another new wrinkle in Radcliffe tennis this fall is Eleanora Mendoca, a former marathon runner for Brazil in the World Championships and currently an assistant tennis and track coach at Harvard. Mendoca is implementing a conditioning program into the practice schedule. It won'ts really get into full swing until November, but already the team is doing stadiums...
...million workers in 4 million workplaces, OSHA got off to an unwieldy start by immediately promulgating as law almost all safety regulations then on the books at federal agencies and organizations like the National Fire Protection Association. The result: an encyclopedic collection of do's and don'ts, 7 ft. thick if stacked together and packed with dizzying minutiae. Six pages of regulations deal with wooden ladders. Sample: "Knots, if tight and sound and less than one half inch in diameter, are permitted ... provided they are not more frequent than 1 to any 3 feet of ladder length...
Directors wearing puttees and waving bullhorns decorate Hollywood back-lots. The air reeks of bathtub gin. Model Ts cause traffic jams. At first it was simple evocations of the '20s (The Great Gatsby) and '30s (Chinatown). Now the trend is narcissistic...