Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is not Michigan, where 60,000 frantic football fans come to watch their gridiron heroes. Nor is it the University of Maryland, whose student body rocks the SRO house as it watches Lefty Driesell and his hardcourt heroes work their magic on the hated opposition. And it is hardly a St. Lawrence, where students line up hours before a hockey game in order to get in, and literally raise the roof once inside...
...rose to go, he smilingly shook my hand, wished me well for the year off I would take before entering Radcliffe, then cautioned, "Watch out for the pigeons...
Further turns in the pathways, further convolutions of the spiral. The people around you seem diminished in stature, their skin pale, their gaze distant. You stop a moment to watch as these college students eddy around you like so many ants in a hill. You are standing in front of the cabinet for Soc Sci 15 and casually pick up a text on behavioral psychology. Graphs of response rates and reinforcements and contingencies stare out at you, but your puzzlement is allayed by the almost tangible presence of laboratory walls enveloping you. A symphonic blend of pigeon cooing fills your...
...Postal Service has been taking some withering criticism, thanks to rising rates and declining service, but Postmaster General Ted Klassen seems to be weathering the snow, rain, heat and gloom of day in executive style. At least according to Washington Watch dog Jack Anderson, who has made Klassen a particular target. Last week Anderson attacked Postal Service expenditures for Klassen's first-class offices in Washington's L'Enfant Plaza Building. More than $300,000 was spent to decorate the tenth-floor executive suite, charges Anderson, including $5,280 for a private pantry...
...pastry tracings of the master's pudgy profile, Hitchcock was less interested in encomiums than work. "My new movie will involve kidnaping and the adventures of a medium," he explained. "The medium is actually a fake, and so is the victim who is actually the kidnaper. So we watch two stories go side by side until they go together," he concluded cryptically...