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Restauranteur Silky Sullivan opened Memphis' Fifth Annual St. Patrick's Day Pub Crawl with the traditional "blessing of the keg." After the "blessing," a hoard of Irishmen, in spirit if not in fact, marched two miles from downtown Memphis to Overton Square, stopping at 19 bars and pubs along the way. Following the marchers was a truck with outside spigots--ready to provide beer between stops...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nation Celebrates St. Pat's Day | 3/18/1981 | See Source »

...summer at Cornell was full of such bizarre characters. There was the Rodent--one of the most vile and obnoxious creatures ever to crawl the streets of Ithaca. He wore the same football jersey torn at the letters to every class enabling him to examine his bellybutton at leisure. There was Greek the gambler: Captain kirk the pinball wizard: and his roommate Studly the womanizer. There was the Mad Typist who lived down the hall from my dingy basement cell never slept and ingested a dozen No-Doz daily and Howard Machine the visiting professor from Britain who never really...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Haven't Had Enough, Huh? | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

...points he piles up, no matter how many game-winning goals he tallies against Clarkson or Colgate or St. Lawrence, feels his career is complete without at least one Beanpot. Three times, for Murray and Benson, February had come and gone. Once they had reached the finals, only to crawl before B.U.; two surprisingly competitive first-night losses supplied little solace...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: At Long last Beanpot | 2/10/1981 | See Source »

While the CRR scrutinized his army record, Harris returned to Cambridge. His senior tutor took him aside and advised him to apologize to the committee so it would grant his request. "He tried to persuade me basically to crawl," Harris says. He refused...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: The University Tries its Students: Case Histories From the CRR File | 12/17/1980 | See Source »

...dead Moritz. This is not playful--it is stupid and self-defeating. There are worse problems, though, such as the indiscriminate use of the video in the second half, which gives the production an uninteresting, gimmicky feel. As a result of all this, the pace slows to a crawl, and the production becomes like a stubborn fish on the end of your line, beating its brains out to a slow throbbing rhythm against the gunwales of your ship...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Unleash the Dogs of Sex | 10/29/1980 | See Source »

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