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...district attorney, Arlen Specter. Specter sets the guidelines and runs the politics. Sprague gets the convictions-from murder to petty bribery. "He is seething with righteous indignation," says one judge who has handled Sprague's cases. "Some men are like a tiger. Dick Sprague is like a whole cage full of tigers-leashed and caged, thank God. But you can feel the power that's there...
Square Dancing with Dudley Laufman. Care Cage Bldg...
...many women, the right to sit on a freezing mountain inside the observer's cage of a moving telescope, perhaps five or six stories above the ground, is at best an unenviable privilege. But Mrs. Burbidge continued observing well into her sixth month of pregnancy; her only child, Sarah, 15, perhaps prenatally influenced, insists that she will never follow her mother's example. Margaret Burbidge has forsworn traditional domesticity. Except on rare occasions, the Burbidges dine out. Asks jovial Geoffrey Burbidge: "What's wrong with restaurant food...
...analyst's couch, in the behavior of small boys who play with dolls and walk around with their stomachs thrust forward in imitation of their pregnant mothers and in primitive rites and ancient myths. According to these myths, presumably conceived by males, Adam delivered Eve from his rib cage, Zeus gave birth to Athena out of his head, and when Semele was burned to death, Zeus seized Dionysus from her womb and sewed him up in his thigh until the infant had developed...
Harvard had one final moment of frustration late in the third period. With U.N.H. goalie Smith caught 20 feet out of the goal for the second time during the game, third-liner Bobby Havern took a slapshot at the lone defenseman guarding the open net and missed the cage...