Word: cornered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back door before my nerves got the best of me. It seemed strange that the characters who had grown to the enormous proportions of their reputation could be so tiny in real life. Baker, the tallest, couldn't be more than 5'8". He and Clapton hid in a corner of the room trying, impossibly, to remain inconspicuous. Baker--chalk skin set off beneath dull orange hair, black motorcycle jacket, high heeled boots and fingers almost hidden in silver and gold rings. Clapton in blue velvet pants, white silk socks and patent leather buckle shoes. Brocaded vest and fingernails longer...
Jack Bruce is an incredibly serious musician. His face is young and calm but up close it hardens around intense eyes. During performances, he sings with that intensity of his eyes and then retreats to a corner while Clapton takes his solos. His conversation was the most egocentric of the three. But, after all, the man can hear four-part harmony in his head. His is unquestionably the unifying force of the group, writing most of the songs, doing 90 per cent of the singing and responsible for harnassing the explosive energies of Clapton and Baker...
...picketing, according to David H. Blair '70, a member of the YPSL, will begin at noon on the corner of Boylston and Tremont Streets and will continue throughout the afternoon. The possibility of an all-night vigil in front of the headquarters is still being considered...
Harvard had many scoring opportunities. The closest chances came in the second quarter, when outside right Ahmed Yehia's shot was barely deflected at the right corner of the net by the Lions' goalie, and in the fourth quarter, when center forward Peter Bogovich's booming kick missed the upper left corner of the goal...
...menage disappear one by one, until he is left alone with his battered, tacit adversary, known (in the program) as The Schmurz. What is The Schmurz-the awful awareness of one's own death? Is despair The Sound that drives this man into an ever-narrowing corner, where he babbles of flowers on his windowsill and dons his old uniform to fight he knows not what...