Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Colombians simply call it la violencia, the only way to describe the sense less slaughter and banditry waged by hate-filled peasants who long ago forgot what they were fighting about. Now, at long last, there are encouraging signs that Colombia's government is gaining the upper hand and beginning to pacify the remote badlands...
...attempt to teach Chloe the art of love-and ends with a riproaring, garter-snapping cancan. The ideal musiquette combined an ironic exposition of human foibles with a lusty, busty display of wenches who did not earn their keep by dancing. Offenbach, after all, was addressing a culture whose upper class was embarked on a carnival that lasted a whole generation. He had the good sense to refrain from homilies...
...actress, then said he wanted her to read for a part in Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea. She got it, and everything has swum since then. She is out of the cold-water flat and into a five-room place on the-upper West Side, which she shares with a couple of dogs and a calico...
Something Missed. But now, out of the upper right-hand corner of his eye, Arthur Telefiend sees a man about to fall from a precipice in a show that his eldest son is watching. If Arthur changes channels on the large screen he will risk missing something in the hockey game, so he tears the earphones off the boy's head in an attempt to hear what is being said on the eaves of doom. The precipice man is still wobbling there when Arthur's peripheral vision picks up George C. Scott, who is walking with...
...this year's 280 freshmen, 84% came from the upper fifth of their high school classes, half had college board aptitude scores of 700 or above (tops: 800), 33 had National Merit scholarships. Going beyond test scores, Swarthmore also demands character, asking applicants such offbeat interview questions as "What is your principal shortcoming right now?" "We look," says the admissions dean, "for a kid with a bit of compassion...