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...crew bosses will also, by necessity, have to shorten the width of the boundaries--conceivably with massive landfill projects--to heighten the possibilities of collision, violence and general oar clashing. A natural outgrowth will be a finely-honed double-edged oar blade, sharp enough to cause at least a little bloodletting. "We need more donnybrooks, more bloodshed. We've got to get those hockey fans out on the banks," the profit hungry owners will be screaming...
Many of the small and tightly knit ethnic communities that once dotted virtually every U.S. city have crumbled under the planner's rezoning and renewal schemes and the bulldozer's giant blade. One community that has successfully resisted the encroachment of urbanization is "the Hill," a 56-block, largely Italian area on the south side of St. Louis, where Yogi Berra and Joe Garagiola grew up. After a series of fierce, emotion-charged struggles with local, state and federal officials, Hill residents now boast a model community that has the lowest crime rate and the highest property values...
...showdown featuring black and white cotton tails? The answer depends partly on how much one can accept Adams' conceit that rabbits "are like human beings in many ways." Adams' rabbits, like people, are divided into leaders, prophets, poets and even comedians. ("Do you know what the first blade of grass said to the second blade of grass?" asks the hlessil Henny Youngman. "He said 'Look, there's a rabbit! We're in danger!' ") The most favored Adams rabbits seem to speak in U accents ("I say, what's happened?") and express...
...gentlemen farmers, living, if not in castles in Spain, on the palpable hope of restoration as well as on decent incomes. Not one appears to be a dimwit, a dinosaur or a debauchee or even a gossip-column item. Perhaps the one who conies closest to being a gay blade is Prince Louis-Ferdinand, 66, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II and claimant to the empire of Germany and the kingdom of Prussia. The prince once had a torrid affair with Lili Damita, an ex-wife of Errol Flynn...
...fencers were blessed with poor competition in their first match since the exam layoff. White said that the Brandeis team "had no sense of the right moment to attack. They were just lousy." White added that his opponent was "so nervous" that he snapped his blade between touches...