Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walk east crosstown. Wind biting and raising whorls of grit and paper scraps. See the sky blown blue somewhere far out over Flushing. As a little boy I thought it was some strange big toilet bowl, Where giants took their craps...
...conversation is still vivid in my mind today: He was polite, relaxed, attentive and unhostile. He nodded, reflected, took off his spectacles, put hand to chin and studied me a while, knocked out his pipe-ash on the round cork knob within the center of a pewter bowl, looked out the window with a weary sense of aging decency, pressed thumb and finger to his brow in old and practiced sense of sorrowful exhaustion. He said to me this: "Of course it's so of course it's not correct. It isn't right for some of us here...
...year student James Hart (Timothy Bottoms) to bombard us with incidents that are out of date, out of character, or both. (Out of date: The film opens with Hart, harassed by a professor in his first class, throwing up his breakfast into the swirling waters of the nearest toilet bowl. Out of character: The film ends with Hart, triumphant at having beaten the professor and survived his first year, throwing an unopened letter containing his hard-won grades into the swirling waters of the Atlantic...
...picnics from the backs of their station wagons. Cold chicken and Chablis was a typical menu. The Midwestern, professional football version is something else-a Polish polka rather than a minuet, New Year's Eve in Times Square rather than a polite dinner party for twelve. The super bowl of tailgating occurs when the Green Bay Packers visit the Minnesota Vikings. TIME Correspondent Marguerite Michaels attended one such blast in Bloomington, Minn. Her report...
...California team. "At home in Bel Air," he explains, "I looked around at the material things that I have and I thought about what we've gone through in Buffalo and I didn't want to be traded." Confident that the Bills are destined for the Super Bowl in a season or three, he says: "We cried together. Now I want to drink champagne together...