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HANOVER, N.H.--Oh wow. That's about all that you can say after spending the better part of a day here in this prep school-like atmosphere, this babe-in-the-woods of an Ivy institution. No, on second thought, you can say more. Like, oh wow, am I glad that I don't have to spend four years in Hanover...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Tears for Some Clowns | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

...Jimmy is elected and they move to Washington, she said, they would put their daughter Amy, 8, in the public school system, which is almost entirely black, if "the security thing can be worked out." Said Mary Hurtig, a Udall delegate from Philadelphia: "That really blew my mind. Wow! The President's little girl in a city public school. What a fine example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Marching Through Manhattan | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...simple cut when he can use a stately and portentous camera movement. He loves strange visual juxtapositions - a leopard roaming around a mansion or a violinist sawing away under a tree in a meadow - because jarring imagery, though it conveys no useful informa tion, is fondly believed to wow the impressionable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Swiss Cheese | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

...movie openings go, Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood made its bow with a wow. Producers of the film, a take-off on 1920s animal flicks, shunned the usual theater scene and held the premiere right on Paramount's spacious Hollywood lot. With good reason, since 100 of the 575 first-nighters were canines. Among them: Zsa Zsa Gabor's Lhasa Apso, Genghis Khan, and Valerie Perrine's 250-lb. mastiff, Thurber. "Genghis was the only pet allowed inside the movie," boasted Zsa Zsa-a fact apparent to everyone once the beast began demonstrating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 10, 1976 | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

...wow, I won," Drickamer screamed--in take...

Author: By Warren W. Ludwig, | Title: Junior Wins WCOZ Contest Thanks to Help From Friends | 4/21/1976 | See Source »

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