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Senior blueliner Holley Tyng (1 g, 5 a) will be the Providence anchor in the defensive zone. But the real quagmire for the Friars is the race to replace DeCosta. Crystal Nicholas, a transfer from national champion Minnesota, highly touted rookie Amy Quinlan and junior Brigid Keady all will compete to be the Providence netminder...
...funny how easily the ineffable verges into the insufferable. Conceptual art has a way of churning minor ground into dust, and Ono's work is full of attenuated Surrealist gestures, as in Four Spoons, a plaque holding three spoons and the crater of a missing fourth. In Pointedness, a crystal ball sits atop a Plexiglas pedestal engraved with the words THIS SPHERE WILL BE A SHARP POINT WHEN IT GETS TO THE FAR CORNERS OF THE ROOM IN YOUR MIND. You can try lending weight to this by comparing it to the gentle paradoxes of Zen and the subtleties...
...also have a friend I call the Democratic Reassurer--the person who used to tell me how delightful Gore is in small groups. "Why don't you ever talk about Gore and small groups anymore?" I asked recently. "You always made him sound like Billy Crystal...
...Next week, the shoals of not only more earnings reports but economic reports on inflation, labor and the GDP all await investors. The coast is not clear; the path is not known. With investors looking into a cloudy 2001 crystal ball, they're itchy and impressionable. Some days that means heart-stopping volatility; on Friday, volume remained robust and the buying was steady, pushing the NASDAQ up 64 and the Dow up 83 by closing time. But after this week, a lot of investors would still rather breathe into a paper bag than place any big bets on the direction...
...night out with Dave, who's just out of the Coast Guard and looking for trouble. We start out at the Village Idiot drinking the bar wine - always a mistake. Find ourselves at the Crystal Ballroom, one of the last true bum bars on the Bowery, where a slumming uptown bartender has finagled a cheap P.A. and convinced some downtown bands to play. We switch to the gin I have in a hip flask. Kim, lead singer of Da Willys, throws herself to the floor in the middle of a an uptempo version of "Last Train to Clarksville". She moves...