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...back to my room and catch the exciting parts of "Days of Our Lives" or even "General Hospital." By the time I would get all the way home and walk up the four flights of stairs to my room, I would hardly have time to unwrap the scarf swaddled around my face (to keep out the torturing cold of a long, windy walk), before I have to make another trek down Garden Street...
...definition, Liz Smith is one of America's premier historians. From Palm Beach, Fla., to Santa Barbara, Calif., via her syndicated column and New York City television show, she catalogs the follies and the triumphs of the famous, able in the wink of a cliche to make careers and unwrap reputations. Some folks can't wait to lap up her latest morsels; others think she ought to have her typewriter confiscated. "She has the power to get people to pay attention," says 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace, who is both friend and frequent subject. "If Liz talks good or ill, people...
...alderman. In Atlanta, police disarmed another lethal package; it was addressed to the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, on which Vance served. In Jacksonville, Fla., local N.A.A.C.P. president Willye Dennis was in such a hurry to leave the office that she did not have time to unwrap a package that had just been delivered. Hearing the next morning of Robinson's death, she remembered the unopened box and called the sheriff's office, which discovered inside it a bomb made with nails and smokeless powder...
...what those others do, often quite slowly and defectively. It's not ignorance that bothers them: ignorance exists like a hole in the desert, for them to pour their learning into; it's "incompetence"--students not picking it all up rapidly, but getting muddled and not being able to unwrap their own muddles. The hidden fact about our profession--perhaps not too well hidden--is that learners complete it enormously. Teachers want to get on with their own work, and their genuine involvement gets reinforced by ambition, egotism, and institutional pressures to produce. They're frustrated by the existence...
...believes Christina Crawford's tales of child abuse in the bestselling Mommie Dearest, the real surprise is that little Christina was not actually done away with by her mommie severest. Now Faye Dunaway will unwrap that dirty linen again: Dunaway plays Joan Crawford in the movie version being shot in Los Angeles for a scheduled September release. The facial resemblance is clearly a casting director's dream. Says Dunaway: "It was scary the first time I saw it." She puts Crawford the Legend before Joan the Mom. Faye's judgment: "I have nothing but admiration...