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Life is not gay and bright in all corners of Cambridge's roundball courts, however, as Latin's boys squad finished the season riding the crest of a 62-game losing streak, a streak which reaches back three years to the glory days...
...spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest...
Most construction companies have been hurt by sharp cutbacks in corporate capital spending plans. But not Fluor Corp. Riding the crest of a mighty global wave of spending for energy projects-pipelines, drilling rigs, refineries-the Los Angeles-based engineering firm has won more business than almost any other heavy construction firm. It has a current backlog of projects worth an incredible $10 billion...
...fabulous fiery sunset over the estuary of the Rio de la Plata, lights coming on in Uruguay and Argentina on either side of the river. Another sunset, seen from sea level, the eye drawn up walls of ocher, rust and dusty rose to the snow fields on the crest of the Chilean Andes. Everywhere, people of charm, energy, talent, incorrigibly attracted to non-Anglo-Saxon forms of government...
...admiration undoubtedly stems from Montale's mastery of the doom-filled Eliotic metaphor ("All our life and all its labors spent/ Are like a man upon a journey sent/ Along a wall that's sheer and steep and endless, dressed/ With bits of broken bottles on its crest"). Part is due to the writer's stoic career. Like an earlier Nobel laureate, Albert Camus, Montale was a bitter antiFascist. His quiet refusal to truckle to Mussolini cost him a sinecure as library executive. Throughout World War II he supported himself by translating an astonishing variety of writers...