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...parkland game-rather than switch from our game to theirs. I played well from the beginning, everything was on, and the wrist, which had still been hurting early in the season, felt okay." By Sunday Faxon had the lead, and he still held it-but barely- at the 18th tee, when he sent his tee shot far right towards the forest. "It went right through the trees and out it came." A chip and a putt and the trophy was his for another year...
Some people have obstinately wrong ideas about what is multiple and what is unique. A fish or a fruit by an 18th century master like Chardin is thought to be distinct, its presence in the still life making it the only one of its kind. But Nature is a greater mass producer than Culture. The sea is full of sea robins and whiting, all looking the same. The peach tree is laden with identical peaches. So it is with Thiebaud's cakes and pies. He is fascinated by variation within repetition, but he never thinks of repetition as being antipoetic...
...Temple Cup is the Crimson’s 18th crown at the Henley Royal Regatta. Harvard’s past titles include three victories from freshman crews in the Thames Cup. Most recently, the Harvard heavyweight crew captured the Ladies’ Challenge Plate...
...like to call him Bello Nock--his clown name and his family name. Although he doesn't act like it, Bello, who keeps his real first name secret, is aristocracy. Members of the Nock family (their performance roots date back to the 18th century in Switzerland) have been circus artists and great clowns for generations. I saw Bello's uncle Pio Nock in the Ringling show when I was 22, and I applied immediately to the Ringling Bros. Clown College. Bello's thoroughly American accent--he speaks many languages, but all of them like a guy from Florida, which...
...even though Roth gets all the credit for being funny, Pynchon is funnier, finding the joke in much harder places than doing an American Pie with a piece of liver. In Mason and Dixon--written entirely in 18th century English, not an easy patois for slapstick--Ben Franklin gives people electric shocks as a bar trick, and George Washington gets high on the hemp from his own farm and speaks Yiddish. In Gravity's Rainbow, Tyrone Slothrop engages in a Malcolm X-assisted dive into a jazz-club toilet bowl that puts Trainspotting to shame...