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...least wasn't hooked up to the power. It might have been pretty warm there." --KARL BEZNOSKA, owner of Houdini, a 12-ft.-long Burmese python that required surgery after swallowing a queen-size electric blanket...
...just pick up hitchhikers,” she chuckles quickly. “I just couldn’t bear the thought that some creep might get you. You look so young.”She reaches into the back and begins to readjust her daughter’s blanket. “I mean, it’s not like we’re the type who pick up hitchhikers.”Except they are exactly the type who pick up hitchhikers—in my experience, the only type. The people who stop for hitchhikers aren?...
...between levity and depth, she delivers one of the play’s most contrary lines: “I was drawing a pink unicorn, and then everything was futile.” Linus (Andrew G. Sullivan ’06) reaches equal heights during “My Blanket and Me,” an ode to his most beloved object. To him, blankets can be just as addictive as brandy, coffee, or cigarettes. Words aren’t even necessary to stand out in this musical. Woodstock (Samantha K. Biegler ’08), a character this company...
...dramatize his commitment to preserving wild places. With the nature writer John Burroughs he followed birdsongs in Yellowstone Park, then rode mules into Yosemite with John Muir, the great preservationist and founder of the Sierra Club. Roosevelt and Muir slept under the stars and were covered overnight by a blanket of snow. T.R.'s journey from asthmatic ornithologist to hearty rancher turned President proved that a silver-spoon birth does not have to prevent a man from developing, over time, a broad vision and a rare kind of political gumption. All he required was a chance to make himself...
...Leverett House in the fall to write his economics thesis on Native American reservation cash flows. A RUN-IN WITH A GANG Meat’s friends were reluctant to reveal details of his death at the annual Harvard Powwow, where mourners placed money, tobacco, and wampum on a blanket to deliver to his family. Weeks before his death, Meat had been walking on a South Minneapolis street when members of the Sureno 13 gang allegedly harassed him. On May 5, Meat and two friends returned to the house. As he spray-painted “derogatory remarks...