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...rights to Wertmuller's film and then have to pretend that her ironic perceptions about Sicily have anything to do with Los Angeles and the Imperial Valley? Why not just say, "O.K., we'll start with Pryor, and he can be, I dunno, a sex-mad orange picker...
...space shuttle's historic test began at dawn, when a cherry picker lifted Pilot Fred Haise Jr., 43, a civilian, and Copilot Charles Gordon Fullerton, 40, an Air Force lieutenant colonel, aboard the craft. Two hours later, engines roaring, the 747 mother ship raced down the runway and rose into the air with the Enterprise clinging to its back like a mating insect. Accompanied by five silver T-38 chase planes that drifted around the pair like pilot fish escorting a shark, the odd couple climbed slowly to 8,100 meters (27,000 ft.). At that altitude...
...chance to trade licks with fellow amateurs. Impromptu bluegrass bands sawed and plucked through the days and well into the nights. "Bluegrass is much more an amateur phenomenon than a professional one," noted Tom Adler, 30, an associate instructor at Indiana University's Folklore Institute and a banjo picker who has been coming to Bean Blossom since Monroe's first festival in 1967. "The rudiments are easy to learn-although there's no end to what can be done in terms of technical achievement...
...Harvey Picker, dean of Faculty of the School of International Affairs, said last night Columbia has had "no recent contact" with Kissinger. The university, however, had contacted Kissinger about a position earlier in the year, Picker added...
...Harvey Picker, dean of Columbia's faculty of International Affairs, last night denied that the university had offered Kissinger a professorship...