Word: blount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the loss of Harvard's top sprinter, Sue Harper, the burden now rests on the shoulders of three seniors: Karen Blount, Leslie Simms, and Cecile Scoon. In the hurdles, Karen Gray will have to constitute a one-woman effort for the harriers, a lonely and impossible task for the returning sophomore...
FICTION: A Philip Roth Reader, Philip Roth ∙ Crackers, Roy Blount Jr. Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino ∙ Loon Lake, E.L. Doctorow ∙ Stanley Elkin's Greatest Hits, Stanley Elkin ∙ The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble ∙ The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty
...usually play defensive end--do exactly what Mel Blount of the Pittsburgh Steelers does. Well, maybe you'd better not print that, if anybody from South House reads this they'll make sure I leave the game early on Thursday...
...much for the intellectual content. The rest of the book is a cunning, amusing and not always pertinent decoupage of articles centering on Blount's South pole: an amusing essay on the habits of the possum; or the tale of a woman who gets stuck to a dry cleaner's revolving garment rack with Super Glue and spends her days plotting a damage suit with her attorney trotting along beside her as she goes round and round with the cleaning; or Blount's modest proposals for new mass media. One scheme would eliminate the more boring moments...
...lagniappe, Blount throws in a few dozen original song lyrics, including, "He's in the driver's seat now,/ Beside him sits my wife./ And I'm just a bug on the windshield of life...