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...memoir, 'Red China Blues' (Anchor Books; 405 pages; $23.95), 19-year-old Jan Wong left home in the U.S. and flew to Beijing to join the workers' paradise. A valued propaganda asset, she was enrolled at Beijing University along with minders assigned to ensure her political purity. To the horror of her fellow students, she clamored to experience the nobility of manual labor, and eventually was allowed to serve at a Beijing tool factory, pretending to make lathes. Her language skill, anonymous Chinese face and bumptious adventuring helped her catch on in Beijing as a reporter for the New York...
...seemed so noble, this great university that welcomed us (us!) into the community of educated men (men!); we never doubted (yes, we were children) that our university was good. We did not know that soon we would doubt it; that we would recoil in horror from what we came to see as Harvard's complicity--Robert McNamara, Samuel Huntington, Henry Kissinger '50--in what we came to see as an immoral war. Remember...
Today, the Crimson Key Society sponsors semiannual screenings of "Love Story" accompanied by commentary rivaled only by that associated with "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" as a welcome for first-years and a farewell for seniors...
...shot again in 3-D...'Whaddya mean [the audience] won't wear glasses?' demanded Producer Bill Thomas. 'They'll wear toilet seats around their necks if you give 'em what they want to see!'...At Warners, Brother Jack [rushed] production on a [3-D] remake of that ancient horror about murder in a wax museum [with] the only director on the lot who cannot properly perceive depth: one-eyed Andre de Toth. [Said De Toth]: 'Beethoven couldn't hear music either, could he?'" --June...
...President won on much of the substance; he also won on tactics. Before the budget was approved, Dole committed a major blunder when he rashly challenged Clinton to negotiate with him one on one, only to watch in horror as the White House's rapid-response team persuaded chief of staff Leon Panetta to accept almost at once. It was an offer that Dole could make but couldn't accept. "We'll see how it looks," he said in retreat. On the Republican right, and not just there, they think Clinton mesmerized Gingrich in the December balanced-budget talks...