Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even notice, when a book like Campus Shock appears. But Lansing Lamont comes out of the same generations as most of America's movers and shakers, and it's quite possible that they share his distorting lenses. While Lamont might be scribbling away unheard in his high-rent New York apartment, the deans and university bureaucrats who really wrote the book, by talking with Lamont and by providing him with students to interview, are making almost all the decisions that shape out lives. People like Derek Bok and Archie Epps, they're still out there...
...insight, a feeling that she has artfully revealed new truths about our society, about women, or families, or something. But the unrivalled conventionality of her vision, the banality of her language, and the vapidity of her characters make you wonder if Rona Jaffe has ever stepped outside her New York apartment. She writes as if she's been watching TV for the last 16 years...
Hasty Pudding Theatricals: fun and pun on Holyoke St. Drag queens prance across the Pudding's yearly spectacle, written by undergrads. It's not quite Broadway, but the Pudding and New York's theater district share one trait: they both need lots of money...
Despite such exotic bottles from which to quaff, connoisseurs sometimes actually prefer the ordinaire. In a blind taste test of ten waters, organized by New York Times Food Critic Craig Claiborne, all five judges ranked Canada Dry Club Soda-a nonmineral beverage containing "sodium bicarbonate, sodium citrate and artificial flavoring" -as one of their top three selections. Some of the other top choices were strictly all-American: Poland Sparkling Water from Maine, Deer Park from a babble of springs in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, and Saratoga Vichy from Saratoga Springs...
...course, consider bottled mineral water the nectar of the '70s. "I've tried Perrier and Poland but I don't like the bubbles," admits Lament Richardson, who works for a major New York water supplier. "I'll stick to the sink." For Chicago Socialite Donna ("Sugar") Rautbord, the decision is the same, the reason different. "I don't want the bubbles," she spouts. "I hear they contribute to cellulite." New York Times Columnist Russell Baker does not admit to that particular worry, but he still weeps over the popularity of these waters: the nonalcoholic beverage...