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...goes to breakfast, always goes to class, and--since the beginning of my degeneration in February--always brings in the mail. He stands at my door, so as to avoid having to walk on my floor (which is always strewn with orange peels and broken glass and old vanilla wafer boxes) and throws my mail at my chest. He's not always good at it, either, which is why we've lost two phone bills and they're going to cut off our service next week if we don't pay them $76.43 in the next two days...
Sylvan Scene. The plot is wafer-thin. It centers on the idea (a recurring one in Shakespeare) of nobles renouncing the splendor, gaiety and fleshly corruption of the court for a quasi-religious retreat amid the guileless innocence of the countryside. The King of Navarre (David Suchet) proposes to his three attendant lords, Longaville (Robert Ashby), Dumaine (Michael Ensign) and Berowne (Ian Richardson), that they form "a little academe." They pledge to meditate, study, fast, and forswear women. This pledge is scarcely uttered when four devilishly distracting ladies appear on the sylvan scene...
...being among the first Americans to get in on the gold action. A Michigan girl, twelve-year-old Carlenne Brown of Bloomfield township, claims to be the first buyer of the yellow metal. At one second past midnight on Dec. 31, she signed an invoice for a quarter-ounce wafer, bought for $52.79 through a publicity-minded Southfield, Mich., coin dealer; he obtained the wafer from a fellow dealer in nearby Windsor, Canada, and had it delivered to his shop by car and helicopter...
...majorities than myself." So said Harold Wilson last week as he watched the results of Britain's second general election in less than eight months. Despite polls that showed the Labor Party winning by a margin of possible landslide proportions, Wilson came out of the election with a wafer-thin parliamentary majority-319 seats in the House of Commons, or two more than half of the total-and the smallest popular vote (39.3%) for any majority government in Britain's history...
...prominent Paris jurist, was named Minister of Health. Three posts went to members of Giscard's small Independent Republican Party. No fewer than eight posts went either to nonpolitical civil servants or to leaders of the small center parties that made indispensable contributions to Giscard's wafer-thin margin of victory. One of them was Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 50, publisher of the weekly L 'Express and self-styled French new frontiersman, who after many years of unsuccessfully striving to project himself as a Gallic John Kennedy, has at last found a national role; as Giscard...