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FIFTEEN HUNDRED MILES from the nearest flicker of civilization, in the depths of the Peruvian jungle, a mile-long clearing has been hacked to connect two rivers. On one bank rests a 300-ton steamship with its nose pointed up the 40-degree slope of a mountain, looking like a stranded whale waiting to climb a steep beach. A series of ropes connect the ship to massive human-powered wooden winches and a lone bulldozer. The engineer, who designed the system to tackle a 20-degree grade, has quite fearing for the lives of the Indian workers if a metal...
...committed modernist à la française, Avery treated the figure as a strictly formal affair: patch for the dress or bathing suit, patch for face, no detail. In the process he often produced a curious scragginess. The parts of the bodies rarely connect well, and have noli me tangere written all over them. Sometimes his lumpish ladies on the beach suggest Thurber. In Matisse, no matter how reduced the outline may be or how schematic the stroke of the crayon that says "eye," "breast" or "hip," one can almost always sense the live weight of a body, its organic...
With the running game stalled through the first quarter--Harvard did little on its first three possessions: even Allard could only connect on two of five passes attempted--the Multiflex went airborne on the first drive of the second period. The first play, in fact...
...only did neither team manage to connect for a goal, but neither team accomplished the goal it had going into the contest. Crimson Coach Edie Mabrey saw this year's game as her best chance yet to win against the Wilcats, but yesterday the stickwomen extended their winless string against UNH to six games...
...technique. He certainly plays favorites with teams and players, unafraid to hope, in print, for a Mets win--because they won't win too many games--or a Red Sox pennant--became he is an unabashed fan. This luxury, unavailable to those writing daily on the beat, has helped "connect myself with the fans...