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...figure of power and poignance, horror and mystery. He dwells in the fetid cellar of the subconscious; from those depths rises the music of passions we hardly dare attend. He is the Id aching for the Ideal, loathsomeness wanting to be loved, unknown fear reaching up to touch or break our hearts. He is every teacher who fell in love with a beautiful student, every middle-aged man who has a star-struck boy's swoony soul. He is kin to Pygmalion, Cyrano, Quasimodo, Dracula, the Elephant Man and King Kong -- artists isolated in their genius, Beasts pining for Beauty...
Quick, now: You coach a basketball team that's lost 11 of its last 12 games, has four players hampered by injuries and is in the Ivy League cellar...
Mark Martone of Haverhill, Massachusetts, who killed his father, remembers abuse back to age five, when he told his dad he was scared of the dark. "Oh, Jesus Christ," said the parent in disgust. Then he led the terrified boy down to the cellar, handcuffed his arms over a rafter, turned off the light and shut the door. Mark dangled in silence for hours. "God forbid if I cried," he recalls. "I was just like a hanging Everlast bag, you know? Punch me, punch me." When Mark was nine, his father held the boy's hand over...
...team is coming off of a 29-19 victory over Brown last weekend, a win which snapped a six-game Harvard losing streak and assured that the Crimson wouldn't end the season in the cellar...
From the looks of Union's first preseason game, a 6-5 loss to Division III Army, the returnees will need not only great play but some divine intervention if they hope to stay out of the cellar...