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Digression. There are two interesting bars in Poughkeepsie, Frivolous Sal's and Squire's East, located, interestingly enough, within a stone's throw of Vassar. But for the same reason Cliffies don't frequent Charlie's Place, you rarely find Vassar girls in Sal's. You find guys in Union...

Author: By Freddy Boyd, | Title: More or Less A Memoir | 4/12/1973 | See Source »

An engaging bachelor with a string of love affairs behind him (one with Actress Adriana Asti, who played the lead in his first two films), Bertolucci loves to prowl through art galleries, and has stuffed his small flat in a Rome apartment hotel with records and books. "Literature was the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Bertolucci: Choreographer for the Movie Camera | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

In a lyrical digression, Brodsky added: "Poets always return, in the flesh or on paper. I want to believe that both are possible. Mankind has left behind the age when the strong were the right, for there are too many in the world who are weak. The only truth is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: An Exile's Plea | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

As for my deep animus toward "athletic bastards who stick together," see Bouton, Meggyesy, et al. And as for my hatred of those teachers who overinstruct but undernourish, yelling "digression!" in Oral Expression every time a student gets interesting, the romantic critiques of Kozol and Herndon have left me winded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Holden Today: Still in the Rye | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

Age 59 years in Las Trampas two logs from hill to hollowed to carry water one inside other half with icicles-very small as compliment to overlap and gravity-hanging below complete skull of a stag on a pole small birds flying so vilently they change direction with each flap...

Author: By Michael Hentges, | Title: From a Journal of a Past Year | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

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