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...sacred or familial about the book's characters. Doctors, architects, models, painters and intellectuals, they inhabit the chic world of urban haute bourgeoisie. Moral conventions and religious convictions have been replaced by easy sex and superficial nostalgia. At a party, two women sing the '40s hit Chattanooga Choo-Choo, while an argument ensues over whether there were three or four Andrews Sisters. Inane chat, vacuous stares, Bauhaus settings and Pucci puppets form a familiar narrative glaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shadow Play | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...Skip," ballplayer Choo-Choo Coleman called back." Aren't you rushing us a little...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Rites of Spring: The Game Begins Anew | 3/17/1977 | See Source »

...Choo-Choo was not known particularly for his wit (not to mention his ball-playing), but that's the kind of thing that happens when the grand old game of baseball emerges from its winter hibernation and the delightful ritual of spring training begins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Rites of Spring: The Game Begins Anew | 3/17/1977 | See Source »

After being named all-New Mexico twice, Acosta seemed on his way to the pinnacle of handball, with scholarship offers to four of "the big handball schools." (Name all four and you win a trip to Chattanooga by choo-choo...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Victory at Hand in Tennessee? | 2/25/1977 | See Source »

...twice invited Margaret to Surrendell, a decaying manoit near Bath that he and some chums have turned into a commune. On one of her visits-both made without her photographer husband Lord Snowdon-Margaret weeded the vegetable patch, then later joined Roddy at the piano to sing Chattanooga Choo Choo and Blue Moon. Some members of Parliament may applaud the idea of the Princess as communard: perhaps she can be persuaded to surrender some of her $70,000-a-year state allowance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 22, 1976 | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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