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Captain Carolyn Powell attributed the team's loss to "the worst case of pre-meet jitters I've ever seen. We realized Brandeis was going to be a tough opponent and psyched ourselves out. We were fencing as if we didn't know which end of the blade to hold...
...fiercest and most striking images--images that draw power not so much from their unexpectedness as from the fear and loathing they convey. The LSD-scarred businessman in "Thirty Spot, Fifteen Back on Either Side" stands helpless in the authoritative presence of a "jade-green reporter like a blade of metal grass thrust upright between the harsh lines of the grip's shouting..a hornet prowling the air." As she enters she checks a mirror, "parting her lips roughly with two blood-colored fingernails and revealing her teeth...
...night, Hall came at me with a big double-cut and the blade just snapped off the hilt of my sword. I froze, but Japes Emerson, who was playing Hall, knew immediately what to do--he jumped me. My sword went clattering away and we started wrestling on the ground. We were making the whole fight up as we went along now, and in the middle of it, I realized that if I died on my back, I couldn't make my final speech. See, I wanted to collapse during my speech--to show this great ebbing of life...
...result the first and second heavyweight crews finished only a few seconds apart and Shibutani's boat was able to upset the rankings. "Good blade work and set-up can more than make up for a difference in strength," Shibutani said...
...surviving guillotines to a Paris museum, where, he predicts, "it is going to have the same attraction as the Mona Lisa." An avid collector of memorabilia involving the device, Badinter purchased the document signed by Louis XVI legalizing the guillotine for executions in 1791. The King died under the blade 18 months after approving its use. Reflects Badinter: "I don't think the machine gave him much satisfaction...