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...reappearance on Soldag (sun day). They plan sun feasts to celebrate, look forward to the closing of schools and offices, and on the great day go to a favorite outdoor spot to watch the sun rise over the horizon. As it makes its appearance, they laugh and clap each other on the back, and some of them shout, "There she is! She's back! She's back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Murky Time | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

...right. I was relieved. What Caravan has done can't harm a play that is broad and strong enough to make sexuality seem merely incidental. The graft doesn't take; the plant is healthier than ever. Jarring additions, such as Didi's case of the clap, or the segment where Pozzo and Lucky grope vainly boringly, Hairiedly for each other on the floor of the stage, are absorbed in the larger effort to deal with "the way it is on this bitch of as earth...

Author: By Pill Patton, | Title: Mating Them Up For Godot | 12/1/1972 | See Source »

Cozza had some hidding words for his punter, Jim Nottingham, who fooled his teammates and coach by taking a punt in the Princeton game and racing 67 yards before being cought from behind on the Princeton 19, "He likes attention," Conne said Appently, "We don't clap enough when he hicks those high boomers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale's Cozza: 'Breaks Are the Came' | 11/25/1972 | See Source »

...Blues is outspoken even by the more liberal standards of public television. It does not shy away from such slang as "the clap" and "a dose," or from crisply clinical descriptions of genitalia. What is surprising - and most commendable - is that a major company would finance such a show, apparently realizing that even the controversy that arises from it can only be salutary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The VD Blues | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

Serving in the Shag, as Hanley calls the vast oven of interior Somaliland, one found the usual physical torments: heat, flies, the lack of fresh food and cold beer. Drinking from bitter desert water holes led to "Wajir clap," an excruciating urinary-tract disorder caused by sharp crystals of undissolvable mica and gypsum. Prickly heat could make a man rub himself raw against a wall, al though some relief could be had by spraying from head to toe with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Found Continent | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

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