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...characteristic talent for getting a maximum of feeling and perception from a minimum of words. At a time when books about women as victims appear with numbing regularity, Double Honeymoon seems a skillful unpretentious throwback to the tradition of woman as seducer - a kind of Blue Angel with button-down wings...
...scion of petty aristocrats on Sardinia whose roots go back to that island's Spanish past, Berlinguer, 54, has been Secretary of the P.C.I, since 1972. He has created a new image for the West's biggest Communist Party-that of hardworking, button-down Communists who in no way represent a revolutionary threat to bourgeois voters. The basic election issue is whether the voters will accept this new respectable image. Ironically, the once ideologically passionate Communists are campaigning in the name of efficiency and good government, while the Christian Democrats (at least to some extent the party...
...traveled well (circulation is up 10% since the move, advertising pages up 35% so far this year), but Harris' freewheeling flamboyance did not. Ziff-Davis, the nation's fifth largest magazine publisher (Modern Bride, Popular Photography), is owned by Chairman William Ziff, 46. and run by a button-down battalion of 26 vice presidents. They winced when Harris risked offending liquor advertisers by publishing a tough cover story on drinking; they were displeased when he installed a Ping Pong table at the editorial offices (Harris paid for it himself), and they were confounded by the unregimented atmosphere...
...thought I had a fixed set-up," he says, "they never give you enough information on these things." "This would be the one time I didn't wear a tie," he says, smoothing back the thin black strands of hair on his balding head and buttoning his top shirt button. The guests begin waltzing into dinner and Rick follows cautiously, pausing at the dining room door. Finally he approaches Gilbert at the table. He gets a couple of shots of her there but must return after dinner for more. This shatters the smooth schedule he envisioned of processing the film...
...crowding. Gone would be freshmen's complaints about being stuck at Radcliffe--everyone there would be there by choice. Gone would be complaints by students that their houses are too crowded--anyone could choose a less crowded house instead. The cost of the instant scoreboard and the twelve-button consoles on 500 seats in Science Center B could be easily met out of the fund paying for Bruce Collier's salary. Michael Segal '76 Steven Kariya '76 Clark Pellett '76 Tent No. 1, Mather Courtyard