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...record-watcher. Monk and Joe break all the records and I just sit around and watch," he said. Cavanagh, an All-America choice his sophomore and junior years, is second in all-time Harvard scoring, and owns numerous records in assists. DeMichele set the Ivy League record for goals in a season this year...
...dissident Soviet Physicist Andrei Sakharov, argues that the U.S. and the Soviet Union are moving increasingly together, the result of their common thrall to similar technological, military and environmental problems. Perhaps so, said Georgy Arbatov, head of Russia's United States Institute and Moscow's leading America watcher, on a recent visit to California's Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. But Arbatov disagrees with those who believe that convergence must somehow serve to improve international relations...
...WATCHER AND OTHER STORIES by Italo Calvino. Translated by William Weaver, Archibald Colquhoun. 181 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...three novellas comprising The Watcher, all of which predate Cosmicomics, Peter Pan is grounded. This earlier Calvino may not have been quite ready for a tragic mask, but his wink is closer to a tic and his grin is spastic. The title story unwinds like an old Vittorio De Sica film in slow motion. A member of the Communist Party, Amerigo Ormea is assigned to be an election watcher at the Cottolengo Hospital for Incurables in Turin. As Amerigo officiously keeps the morons and vegetable cases from being recorded as Christian Democrat votes, Calvino demonstrates ironically that the Catholic Church...
...work on the week's assignment, she acquired a pair of satin patchwork hot pants and modeled them for her family. "I stood in what I thought was a fetching pose, sucking in my stomach and flashing a semigenuine smile," she recalls. "They just laughed." But Fashion Watcher Davis admits that she is usually not as trendy as the models and designers whom she covers. "I resisted pants for years until my mother, who is 73, began wearing pantsuits," she recalls. For hot pants, she sees a market that may not be mass but at least sounds appealing: "Tall...