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...began with the none-too-uncommon catalyst: second semester freshman year, the last hourlies before exam period, a semester already marred by negligence and procrastination, and four really rough courses. Then to add wood to the fire we've got the snoring roommate on the upper bunk. Sure, amidst anxiety-ridden times and uncontrollable circumstances, we are all afflicted with the inability to fall asleep for awhile. Or even, on rate occasions, for an entire night. But for two full weeks...
...game days, the atmosphere is electric for blocks around the park. The dirty Back Bay sidewalks are dappled with souvenir stands boasting the Sox' bright red and navy colors. The shrill cries of peanut and hot dog vendors fill the air. Amidst this street carnival, the fans dodge the traffic and each other as they converge on Fenway, swarming past the hawkers, the tall red brick facade and through the turnstiles...
...squad takes on Colby this Tuesday at 3:00 down on the clay at Soldiers Field. However, the evidence from Saturday's mid-morning match, played amidst practicing marching bands, is that the Radcliffe tennis team is likewise tuning up for bigger things yet to come...
...would-be romantic with nothing but compromised causes to champion. And when Gianninni beds with a town official's voluminous wife to repay her husband for cuckolding him, even the eyefull of female rear end Wertmuller gives us--sexist as it is--manages to drive home its grotesque point amidst this old order gone modern and absurd...
...notables like the Fairfaxes, his patrons, the young war veteran settled down with the widowed Martha Custis, then 27 (two children by her first marriage, none by her second). Said Washington: "With an agreeable consort for life ... [I] hope to find more happiness in retirement than I ever experienced amidst a wide and bustling world...