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...behalf. Most of us merely dream nonsense, but the rich have to live it; and while we rarely endure the consequences of our fantasies, they do so relentlessly. Allan Carr, the co-producer of Grease, reflecting on his Malibu dream house and his Beverly Hills mansion with its cop per-walled disco chamber, exulted, "This is my fantasy . . . I'm dreaming all this." Then he added that he would kill anyone who awakened him. Who would think of doing that? Thanks to the Allan Carrs, all our harebrained desires are realized by proxy, like hiring a mercenary to fight...
...preparation. (The French, while masters of no-expense-spared gourmet cooking, have never come in better than third at Frankfurt; they sulked at home this year.) The first U.S. team entered the Olympics in 1956 and got shut out. But in 1968 the Yank chefs were able to cop 16 golds, more than any other national team that year, and in 1976 they won 30 medals, a record high for individual competition. Each team must make 100 plates of its hot and cold dishes, which are sold at a public restaurant. One sign of success is the speed at which...
Never known for ponderous sobriety, the yellow and orange clad Q-Worlders yesterday held a big bash behind the Stadium, out-drinking and out-playing the flat Kirkland House squad to cop a 6-0 House Football victory...
...defeats left the ultimate outcome of the match up to the three doubles matches, and the Crimson pairs rose to the occasion. Roberts and Pe took a "fun match" from O'Hallahan and Sleeper, 6-4, 6-4, while Bougas and Shulman regained momentum in the third set to cop...
...others, he cannot achieve personal satisfaction until he has helped others; he doesn't come off at all preachy, only determined to see that the American Dream is spread as widely as possible. Terkel does have is share of individualists--a race car driver, a libertarian philosopher, a Chicago cop--but he doesn't pretend that the Dream begins and ends with them. For all that the descendants of Jefferson and Thoreau hold sway over popular mythology, the spirit that producer Abolitionism, Populism and the New Deal still holds sway over many lives...