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...depart is hovering over the Harvard campus. Protesters are finding new reasons to force Harvard to place plain-clothed officers in front of Mass. Hall, gates are being locked to keep disgruntled thieves outside the Yard and roommates are testing each other's will to see how tall the trash pile can build. The fact that high school friends are already enjoying the fruits of summer laziness doesn't help the situation either...
...possible. But so far McMillan has not written formula glop. And most of the time her chapters, though they can rank nearly as high as Steele's and Krantz's in breathy descriptions of dressing, undressing and furniture, have a brassy realism that saves them from the trash bin. And even though peace has broken out in the author's life, with the usual corrosive effects on a satirical viewpoint, the reader suspects that there are more battle communiques to be written in the ancient and always up-to-date war between the women...
...scenario has its soft spots, but it does allow Stone to adopt a white-trash Southern cadence and wear a persuasive dust-bowl scowl. In stir she sits and stares, her old sexual insolence tamped into sadness and contempt. She looks haggard, wiry, prickly--fabulous. By the end she is practically Garbo in Camille, the doomed woman comforting the gentle, lesser man who loves her. Stone does a fine job without surrendering her star quality. She just can't save this schematic story...
...consumed 7,000 acres, mostly national forest, and has reportedly come within ten miles of vacation towns Red River, Taos and Eagle Nest. In La Lama, about 23 buildings, including ten belonging to the Lama Foundation spiritual community, have been destroyed. The fire began Sunday as a small trash fire. TIME's Nancy Harbert reports from Albuquerque that area residents are worried that this fire and another near Tucson, Arizona are putting a strain on firefighting resources. "Normally, the fire season doesn't start until June, so we're all nervous that this hasn't peaked. There is a fear...
...guests at the Radio & TV Correspondents' Dinner were shocked at the mean mouth of Imus? Trash talk is his trademark. When a farm animal is invited to a banquet, don't be surprised if he shows up smelling like the barnyard. TOM HOPPENJAN Moline, Illinois...