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With a wry smile, Preston Davenport 78, looks over the dwindling crowd. In 35 Octobers here, his Ayrshires and Holsteins have won a slew of blue ribbons, anc he has come to know a thing or two abou fairgoers. "Everyone has been saying how much they are going to miss it," he says quietly. "But, you'll see. In a month or so they'll be onto something else." That is the comfort of progress-and its regrettable price. -By Joelle Attinger
Featuring a slew of talented freshmen recruits and an experienced rookie coach, the Harvard women's tennis team just may come of age in the 1981 fall season...
...encyclopedia she turned to next was not too helpful; printed before a slew of African nations won independence in the 60s, it still discussed Gabon as a colony. "What it did say was not very comforting," she recalls. "Something about a prevalence of snakes and large cats...
Dennis is one of a slew of Harvard officials and professors who may have to seek private funding if Congress approves Reagan's proposal to cut the NEH's $169 million 1982 budget by about half, with equally sharp cutbacks to come...
...French labelled it film noir, but coining the phrase was about as close as Gallic sensibilities could ever get to it. No Frenchman could truly understand a city like L.A., and that, metaphorically at least, was what film noir was all about. The term was used to describe a slew of films, the likes of Double Indemnity or The Killers. which were stepchildren of earlier gangster movies but which now had a peculiarly fetid air to them--a heedless, languishing cynicism. Noir heroes always talked like they'd been to hell and back and found it was nothing compared...