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...seemed less awed by the transformation than Carter himself. With Rosalynn and nine-year-old Amy in tow, he strolled like a tourist up the driveway to his new home. "Where do I live?" he asked White House Chief Usher Rex Scouten. Scouten promptly led the family upstairs to the presidential quarters that had only that morning been vacated by the Fords...
Once inside the stadium we began to search for our seats. "Up," the usher said and up we climbed, to the very top. The players on the field resembled flyspecks; stratospheric currents chilled us to the bone. Drunk sports fans screamed unintelligible epithets in our ears and yes, the UCLA band was settling down directly in front of us. The despair creeping into my facial expression was painfully obvious, reflected in the tubas that lined the row before us. The game itself was a complete mismatch, Alabama winning by a score...
...Crimson cagers usher in the season Friday night when they tip-off with first year coach Jim Boheim's Syracuse Orangemen in the first round of the Hall of Fame Tournament in Springfield...
Though Stallone is no boxer, the film is clearly autobiographical. "Rocky is me," he says, "but he's more gallant and simple than I am." Like his hero, Stallone is a raffish charmer and hustler. He used to be an usher at a Walter Reade theater in Manhattan, but was fired fo trying to scalp a ticket for $20 to a customer who turned out to be Walter Reade. Later he lived on bootlegged Walter Reade passes, which he made Xerox copies of and sold to students...
...Lady Arrow, the revelation slips in for only a second when her idyllic picture of Hood's quaintly shabby neighborhood is shattered by the dusty characterlessness of the place. For Gawber, the perception of the true nature of modern decline is more annihilating than his imagined House-of-Usher-like holocausts could ever be. Catastrophe, Gawber realizes, is not "fancy's need for theater...