Word: countryman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...male cheerleaders are just as athletic, if not more so than their female counterparts. Friedman runs track for Harvard and sophomore Barry Bausano is a talented wrestler. In addition, swimming sensation Larry Countryman recently joined the squad. Erelimaintains that some of the lifts and pyramids the cheerleaders perform demand a good deal of athletic ability. "There is enough skill involved to really make it interesting." he says. "Some of the things we do take a couple of months to really get down...
...fell among major-league upsetters of the peace last year in Gaines' Newbury, N.H., living room. He and his friends were jawing enjoyably about whether a city man, adept at taxi-dodging and expense-account padding, could possibly have the survival skills in the outback of a hardened countryman. Hayes Noel, 40, a trader on the floor of the American Stock Exchange in Manhattan, took the hell-yes position. The hell-no side was defended by Gaines, a novelist (Stay Hungry, Dangler) and writer for outdoor magazines, and Bob Gurnsey, 39, a New Hampshireman and sometime ski-shop owner...
...them, the worker, has brought his daughter (Marta Zoffoli), a child of about eight, with him. She will share a bedroom with the old man, hear his explanation of why a countryman needs no alarm clock, play sensuously in the grain stored in the barn and, while her father and uncles are at the funeral, find a symbolic egg and present it to her grandfather. She alone among the visitors will cry for the dead woman and elicit answering tears from her grandfather. Thus do the innocence of childhood and the simplifying wisdom of age find common ground, and strike...
...letters, which the Seymour Society, a Black Christian social action group, will main today, criticize Senate bill 1630 for what Vern Countryman, Royall Professor of Law, recently called "its draconian provisions on preventive detention and sentencing...
...have no opposition to improvements in the current code, but I do regard this as an improvement," said Countryman, who drafted one of the letters...