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...exam collapse" and (in extreme cases) "exam psychosis." Although students who flunk can try again a half-year later, they see a first failure as a personal humiliation. To an alarming extent, students use stimulating drugs to keep themselves going through their final swotting: sales of Maxiton (an amphetamine) zoom from 10,000 boxes a month to 120,000 during the May-July exam season and university authorities have issued posters in an attempt to discourage the practice...
...creative frenzy, he cried: "Let's get the Sadler's Wells Ballet to do an outside original in an exciting locale, like on a fleet of barges being towed around Manhattan, with the symphony orchestra on the first barge, and cameras with telescopic lenses spotted ashore to zoom in from the Empire State, the Statue of Liberty, the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge on a particular scene and with a natural finish as it turns into a water ballet, and they all drown! Gad! What a 90 minutes we have here...
Lillian's zoom to success is not surprising. She has looks, a brassy voice that -when anybody cares to listen-is both true and spirited, and she can play trombone. The rock 'n' roll fad has probably whirled her up faster than otherwise would have happened, but her sudden good fortune has not made her cocky. "If anything goes off in this business," she says. I'll go back to driving a truck...
...Young at Heart Can Ever Forget." Showing the wide, wide world will require twelve mobile units, 40 cameras, 1,000 performers and technicians, 10,000 miles of telephone line. It will hop cross-country from Broadway to the shores of San Diego and the ski slopes of Mount Hood, zoom east for a water spectacle at Jones Beach, take in a couple of scenes from Julius Caesar at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ont., listen to a jam session on New Orleans' Bourbon Street and switch to Tijuana to watch the Mexican comic pantomimist, Cantinflas, fight a bull with...
...other into one's ear. A simpler way of being pounded to jelly is to read a novel by France's Louis-Ferdinand Cèline. No rubber hose can convey the feel of Cèline, nor can his own favorite exclamations, such as "Bam!", "Bang!", "Zoom!", "Zimm!", "Rrpp!", "Rrooo!", "Rraap!", "Rrango!", "Whah...