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Cartoon directors are kids at heart, and the Warner aces (Jones, Avery, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett) were brilliant kids, all in their 20s or early 30s, when they created Porky, Daffy and Bugs. Freleng was the anchor, making crisp vaudeville comedies. Clampett bent his stories and pummeled his characters into manic, surreal, endless inventive farce; his great period (1942-46) deserves a book of its own. Jones' films were about people--all right, barnyard critters, but human withal--who endured life's vithithitudes (as Daffy would say) with amazing grace and Charlie Chaplin's physical...
...wasn't a no-hitter by any means; Princeton came very close to scoring in two separate innings. But though Brown bent, she never broke, and that broke the Crimson's losing streak to its southern rivals...
Part of Ginsberg's charm for contemporary poets may be his revolutionary bent and refusal to conform to accepted standards of poetic form...
...BRUNSWICK, New Jersey: Cloning. Artificial Insemination. Big Blue. Any way you look at it, man seems bent on his own obsolescence. Now two Rutgers University professors say they have hit upon the chemical that causes female orgasm, and one of these days they may be able to simulate it. In studies of women with spinal cord injuries, the professors discovered an alternate pathway through which the sensation of an orgasm is sent to the brain. Through the vagus nerve, sensation can travel directly from the cervix, through the abdomen and chest cavity, into the neck and to the brain stem...
Smith was appointed chief of cardiovascular medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, a forerunner of BWH, in 1974. As head of the department, he oversaw 70 physicians and was responsible for the training of 300 fellows during his 22 years in the post...