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...there I was in Crystal City, Mo., on an overcast fall day in 1999, listening to a candidate I believed in, a candidate I had actually signed up to work for, a candidate who was uttering words I had helped write, and yet some magnetic force was keeping my palms apart. Old habits die hard, but, hey, I wasn't a journalist anymore, and I put my hands together...
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...
...undermanned Crimson will need plenty of help from its goaltenders as its last line of defense. Junior Alison Kuusisto, who started between the pipes when Harvard beat New Hampshire in the 1998-99 national championship game, is the only experienced netminder on the squad. As the backup to Crystal Springer last season, Kuusisto played in nine games, posting a 2.58 goals-against average and a .888 save percentage...
...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...