Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your article on the neo-Nazis [Feb. 28] makes me wonder whether the human race learned anything from the Hitler era. There still seem to be people who hate Americans whose ancestral backgrounds are not truly "American". I should just like to know where those Nazis themselves all come from...
Several large, swaying pieces hanging over the stairs create a dizzying effect as you go up to the gallery. Then a brief moment of fright rushes through you as you notice the sign on the railing saying "High Voltage, Do Not Touch" and you wonder what would have happened if you hadn't noticed the sign...
HOLLYWOOD OF THE 1930s is a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty, and Monroe Stahr, boy wonder, is at her service. Stahr's business is making pictures, transmuting the dreams of Depression-deadened America into vendable celluloid. His is an Horatio Alger story with an F. Scott Fitzgerald twist, a saga of material success rooted in romantic illusion. For a while, Stahr can have his cake and sell it too; but the crisis comes when he tries to shape his own life in the image of the movies by snatching happiness from an ill-fated love affair. For Fitzgerald, success...
...wonder who reads this kind of publication besides myself. Are there other news schlock fanatics out there somewhere, eager to explore a fantasy world more "real" than everyday life because it appears in print? I'm not sure there are. Perhaps most of the shlock readership is made up of housewives, middle-American prisoners of the vacuum and the mop, crying babies over their shoulders and Rice Krispies cookies in their ovens. The Star, after all, is ostensibly for "American Women." The Enquirer and Midnight claim a more diverse audience...
Meanwhile, Michigan had enough trouble with Ronnie Perry-less Holy Cross (a close 92-81 win) to make me wonder whether Harvard shouldn't challenge the Wolverines next season. The Crimson lost by only 18 to a full Crusader squad last December...