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Those who stayed at home cut further into the dreams of their time. Schnorr von Carolsfeld's entwined lovers jump from a cliff, in erotic slow-motion; romantic fascination with the "inseparability" of love and death was never put more concisely than in this smooth, slick image of sexual harakiri. Johann Hummel transformed a granite bowl, erected in the Berlin pleasure gardens, into an object as disquieting as a flying saucer: with fanatical precision, the tiny reflections of passers-by are caught in its mirror-polished surface, twisted and topsy-turvy, as though Magritte had been let loose...
...Coach Cliff Stevenson tried to fire up his squad at the half, but Harvard completely controlled the third period of play, The Crimson kept the ball in its offensive half of the field for the entire 22 minutes. It was by far Harvard's best coordinated period of the season. Halfback Harrower and John Gordon in particular continually kept the Brown defense from clearing the ball...
...firm, arranging a shotgun merger or, as a last resort, ransoming customers' stock by making payments out of a $55 million New York Stock Exchange trust fund. Last week Wall Street managed the most dramatic rescue yet, but in doing so apparently exhausted its resources for continuing the cliff-hanger...
...Division B, Barbie Grant and Toby Kellogg alternate at skipper for the Cliff and have been finishing behind M.I.T.'s Maria Buzzeppo, who seems to give the Engineers the depth they lacked last year...
...electorate. According to the Albanian news agency, exactly 100% of the country's voters turned out last week to elect representatives to the People's Assembly, local councils and the courts. Every single voter chose the Communist Party's slate of candidates. Actually, it was a cliff-hanger compared to the Soviet election in which Joseph Stalin, possibly with the help of some of Gogol's dead souls, is said to have collected 130% of the vote in his home district...