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...Soviet Union are aiding the leftist guerrilla coalition, the Democratic Revolutionary Front (FDR), asserting that the presence of these two countries in El Salvador is minimal and has little ideological impact on the FDR itself. "To say the root of the problem is Soviet and Cuban arms is poppy cock," he says emphatically. "The FDR would be fighting anyway...

Author: By Judith E. Matloff, | Title: Mexican Poet Carlos Fuentes: At Home Abroad | 3/6/1981 | See Source »

...Stellar's will alight on the garden dirt, cock his head in disdain, scream twice, burst off into the hemlock and set the lower branches dancing almost before its blue sheen has blazed on my retina. What a vacancy a jay leaves...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: The Land Remembers | 1/13/1981 | See Source »

...framework for the usual action--Popeye slugging his way through run-ins with Bluto and other assorted ruffians. The fight scenes underscore the limitations of the premise. Clever camera and stunt work not-withstanding, human beings simply cannot contort themselves the way cartoon figures can. Robin Williams can only cock his wrist a couple of times for the famous twister punch. As a result, the slapstick gains in immediacy but loses the necessary hyperbole...

Author: By Jared S. Corman, | Title: More Spinach, Less Altman | 1/6/1981 | See Source »

HANOVER, N.H.--With 12:41 left in Saturday's Harvard-Dartmouth soccer game. Big Green midfielder Brian Hitch-cock broke a 1-1 deadlock with his second goal of the afternoon...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Big Green Nips Crimson Booters, 2-1; God, Showers Crush Ivy Title Hopes | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...roll paean to gay bars. Homosexuality is presented here, as it has always appeared to straights, as an act of desperation. There's really no question of Jagger's orientation; when asked by High Society magazine whether he was at least bisexual, he replied, "I don't suck cock, and I've never had my prick in any guy's ass," which would seem to answer the question. There is another reference to the Hellenic detour elsewhere, on "Let Me Go," when Jagger moans, "Maybe I'll become a playboy, hang around in gay bars, and mooooooooove to the West...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: The Man Who Loved Woman | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

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