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...week, Brenda will probably end up at the altar in November with the dashing Basil St. John, her boy friend of 35 years, revealed Creator Messick. "After all, Brenda has been everywhere and done everything, but she's still a virgin. In fact, she only got a belly button five or six years...
Agee realizes that he was a 1950s stereotype, so button-down-collared that it hurts to read about it. It is central to his intent in writing CIA Diary that Agee tells us that he was one of the countless college graduates that were "Made in America" all stamped out of the same white, suburban liberal mold. This background is important to Agee not only because he wants to tell us what he did as a CIA agent in Latin America; he also wants us to understand why he did it and to agree with him that trees grown...
Forced to officials of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Crooks ends up with Bruce Collier, assistant dean of the College for housing. "Hi, Bruce," he says. "This is Tom Crooks. The bathrooms over in Canaday are starting to get muggy, and I think we should push the button over there...
MICHAEL ROTHSCHILD has a button on his telephone so that he can turn off the ring when he's working. Rothschild writes fiction, in his isolated house in Strong. Maine, and if you call him while he's writing, the phone just rings and rings without getting picked up because he's got the button on and doesn't hear anything. If you're press and happen to call when Rothschild has wandered into his kitchen for coffee and momentarily turned the button off, he still isn't exactly dying to talk. The press is just another mechanical intrusion...
Approaching a woman waiting to receive Communion last week at St. Brigid's Catholic Church in Pacific Beach, Calif., the priest paused hesitantly. Eying the National Organization for Women button she was wearing, he asked gravely: "Do you believe in abortion?" Just as seriously, she responded: "You mean I have to give my beliefs before I receive Communion...