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...predominance of premeds into Thayer South, according to the conventional wisdom, so it had crowded a predominance of misfits and lunatics into Pennypacker. One piece of evidence for this belief was the fondness of many of Pennypacker's residents for scaling the building's outside wall, balancing on the inch-wide fourth-story fire-escape railing, and them chinning themselves onto the roof. The main attraction of being on the roof, as far as I could tell, was the opportunity it afforded for climbing down again. Sometimes I would sit on the fire-escape for an hour at a time...
LOOK AT the album cover. Hard core normalcy at its best. Kids and wives, dogs and roadies, one big happy family. Southerners wear their superstardom well. None of your dissipated entourages, nine inch platforms, catered backstage parties, washed out groupies. Nossir. These are jus' folks. Who'd know that these very same Allman Brothers helped draw 600,000 hippies to a race track for a weekend of myth recreation? Or think it odd that the band hadn't achieved said superstardom until two members, one an original brother, had met violent deaths in similar circumstances, at locations within blocks...
...Janet Suzman (Nicholas and Alexandra). The other, a full-blast 20th century version, brought Rebel Vanessa Redgrave on stage. The actors' props were revolvers, hand grenades and Ronson lighters. Antony was a cigar-smoking swinger sporting a white cravat. Dominating all, even without the aid of her three-inch heels, was Vanessa Redgrave. Her Cleopatra was a rasping vamp leering through outsized orange sunspecs, her slacks held up by red suspenders, and green plastic combs in her hair. According to the director, Tony Richardson, Vanessa's ex-husband, all these bizarre goings on are intended as a comment...
...Japanese rice paper with the solution and backing the paper with wood pulp, Dini and an assistant pressed each little rice-paper block for five minutes on the surface of the fresco, then repeated the procedure with a second solution. It took two years to thus cover each square inch of the vast painting...
...become a very personal experiment, and a difficult one. It means trying to separate your human needs from the needs of your sex role. It means trying to grapple with a sensibility, and a sensibility is a very slippery thing. It means picking yourself up by your gutstrings to inch yourself forward