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Some club members say that bouncers screenpartygoers for proper identification and that noalcohol is served to minors. "With all parties, wefollow stringent rules," says Bliss M. Dake '94,president of the Spee. "We ID people and we have amain drinking room in the club to separate those21 and over...
...14th century Japan (Segaki), Yucatan at the time of the Spanish conquest (A Signal Victory), the court of the Pharaoh Ikhnaton (On a Balcony). This time the novelist chooses a subject particularly well suited to his oddly cerebral evocation of blood and brass: the legend of the Duchess of Amain...
...Miesian house." Gone is the "flowing space" that made one room run into another: "Here you go from room to room with doors that close." While the International Stylists tried to make everything as light as possible, Johnson put up solid rectangular piers inspired by the pergolas of Amain...
...their backs creaked beneath the violent tugging of bold hands, and the sweat flowed down in streams; and many a weal, red with blood, sprang up along their ribs and shoulders; and ever they strove amain for victory...
...Toledo last week, a group of U.S. wrestlers strove amain, using some of the classic grips of Homer's time. As in Homer's time, the sweat flowed in streams, even if blood did not. Toledo's heaving modern heroes were competing for titles in a wrestling style new to National A.A.U. competition : Greco-Roman, a modified descendant of the style used by Odysseus and Aias...