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...exhibition lacrosse game, scheduled today, between the Brine Lacrosse Club (formerly New England Lacrosse Club) and the Crimson varsity has been washed out. Furthermore, against all muddy tradition of the game, the league contest pitting the frosh with MIT on Tech turf today has been postponed. The varsity will not reschedule its tiff, but the MIT tiff will be made-up, at an unspecified date...
...name she pronounces "Veedle"-for $23.64. When "Mr. Veedle" talks back, she threatens him with all those recordings that the phone company has been making of his calls over the years. "I think blackmail is such an ugly word," she tells him in a voice that mixes honey with brine. "Let's just call it a vicious threat...
...reports by Cory, Dolinar and many others went to Contributing Editor Virginia Adams, who has written five previous cover stories in the Behavior section. Senior Editor Ruth Brine, who edited this week's article, brought a personal perspective to the assignment; one of her sons is a teen-ager and another son and daughter recently were. "Both teenagers and their parents suffer their share of uncertainties in this new atmosphere," says Brine. "We can't presume to tell any of them what they should or shouldn't do. Rather we tried to report on what people...
...coal seams that lace County Durham. The tunneling now extends for miles in all directions. To reach the end of the most distant coal face, which extends 51 miles offshore beneath the North Sea, the miners must ride and walk-and sometimes crawl -through the black holes and seeping brine for more than an hour. D. H. Lawrence described their kind of life in Sons and Lovers in 1913: "And there is a sort of shadow over all, women and children and men, because money will be short at the end of the week...
...Other avant-garde artists have used human models and animals in their assemblages. Harrison filled his tanks with 135 catfish, 96 oysters, eleven lobsters, two crayfish and innumerable tiny brine shrimp to demonstrate, he said, how man might live in a polluted environment by harvesting fish. On opening night, 35 of the catfish were scheduled to be electrocuted, and served up to specially invited guests along with hush puppies and salad. "My piece is about the cycle of life," Harrison explained...