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...power of suggestion, my dear, he said, sitting down on a rock and stroking his chin. "It's how the whole legend about me got started. But everyone sure is out of date on what I've been doing...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: He Looked a Little Like Allen Ginsberg | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

...gathered aoround the posts and readied for a charge from the enemy. Upon seeing the guy on my left flank go down hard after a right to the chin, however, the goalposts passed quickly from my mind. I figured 9,999 men was enough and headed for cover in the hordes of alumni leaving the stands. The goalposts went down shortly thereafter, as did several more of the troops...

Author: By My MICHAEL Bass, | Title: Winning Is Everything | 11/20/1982 | See Source »

...thankful for these outcast fragments of literature hanging from our tea cups, this source of guidance and thought. In a world in which everything is measured and monitored, in the complicated, often depressing world of college, "sometimes the best thing to get off your chest is your chin. "It's best, perhaps, to accept the tea bags for what they are After all, "A spoken work and thrown alone cannot be recalled...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: Tea-ing Off | 11/10/1982 | See Source »

...world for the next 60-odd years of self-portraiture. By 1920 Soyer had a lithographic crayon firmly in hand. With strong, fluid strokes, he sketched a head of singular beauty: a mass of black curls resting on an inverted triangle, the faintly protruding ears pointing downward toward the chin, the eyes shrouded but intent, as always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Raphael Soyer's Steadfast Gaze | 9/6/1982 | See Source »

...Peter de Vries, 25, with two years toward a doctorate in violin performance at the University of Indiana, and just now the first violinist of the Chautauqua Festival Orchestra. He says something, laughing, to Evan Wilson, 20, the principal violist, and then puts his violin under his chin,and plays an A. A's of various textures rise up from the instruments played by his colleagues, and De Vries sits down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York State: Culture's Front Porch | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

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