Word: weatherly
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Predicting the news, like predicting the weather, is always on uncertain task. The Crimson makes no promise, therefore, that the following Spring 1985 preview of College issues and the Undergraduate Council is either all-inclusive or comprehensive. It may be useful, though, as a guide to some of the headline events and issues of the months ahead...
Sinatra arrived for rehearsals unprepared for the capital's chill weather. The next morning he was the first customer at the local branch of Brooks Brothers, whose accommodating staff sent Ol' Blue Eyes back outside wearing a new blue coat. It evidently kept the singer more than comfortably warm, especially under his collar. Two days later the Washington Post published a long story noting that not only Sinatra but also Entertainers Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. were in town for the Inauguration, and speculating about a rebirth of the infamous, Sinatra-led Rat Pack of the '60s. Approached...
...Powell, Donald O'Connor, Judy Garland. Among the MGM treats is Gene Kelly's original dance with Carol Haney, whose figure was later replaced by a cartoon figure for the animated classic Invitation to Dance. Kelly dances with garbage-can lids on his feet in It's Always Fair Weather and Donald O'Connor helps him make a shambles of a linguist's office in "Moses" from Singing in the Rain...
...JUST that John Travolta looks ridiculously dated when he gyrates in his polyester disco-duds, while Astaire and Kelly weather 40 years with undiminished grace. Or that Flashdance, for all its sensuous verve, is just another rock video...
...even if that story was almost entirely nonvisual and the participants refused to talk to the press until it was over. Brokaw wryly implied to viewers that his intrepid-correspondent posture might be a bit silly: "You may be thinking that this is not the kind of weather in which you should be standing outside talking. You may be right...