Word: down-and-out
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...head down to Kirkland House on a Saturday in October, you might think our ivied bricks had been airmailed to Columbus, Ohio or Lincoln, Nebraska. Jocks do exist at Harvard--that is for sure. For everyone who doesn't know the difference between a down-and-out and being down-and-out, there are a couple who think reading period is the time when a quarterback tries to figure out a defense. Not that the bookish wonks or the dumb jocks are revered characters on campus. There is really no such thing as a Big (Wo) Man on Campus...
...playground bursts into a kaleidoscope of colorful costumes and Kabuki gymnastics. Rum Tum Tugger, the cool cat of rock (Paul Nicholas), tells the story of magical Mr. Mistoffelees (Royal Ballet Dancer Wayne Sleep), who displays twisting, spiraling, pirouetting feats of legerdepied. Finally, Old Deuteronomy bestows a rare gift on the down-and-out Grizabella: a tenth life. The stage becomes misty, an otherworldly light suffuses the theater, a giant tire rises eerily above the pussylanimous crowd, and Grizabella ascends, reborn and apotheosized, "up up up past the Russell Hotel, up up up to the Heaviside layer." This is heaven...
...Brown's second possesion of the game, Harvard's defense--its most effective weapon in its opening four victories--resurfaced, specifically cornerback Rocky Delgadillo. Brown quarterback Larry Carbone went back to pass on second down and look for flanker Mitch Metz on a short down-and-out pattern at the Brown 27. He found him, but Delgadillo simply grabbed the ball out of the Bruin's hands and took it back...
...heart of steel and an eye for her union organizer. Fresh from that Academy Award performance, Field is at work in the South again in an even more down-to-earth assignment. In Back Roads, now shooting in Mobile, Ala., she plays a hooker who falls in love with a down-and-out boxer and decides to travel cross-country with him. If her roles are becoming more elemental, life for Field herself is growing more complicated. "I'm used to being the last person cast," she says, reflecting on pre-Oscar days. "Now I have the next...
...young artist in Paris at the turn of the century, such material could not last forever, and not all Picasso's experiences were gaslight and garters. Living in poverty in the little Spanish artists' colony in Montparnasse, he identified himself in a sentimental way with the wretched and down-and-out of Paris, the waifs and strays. This wistful misérabilisme, verging on allegory, was the keynote of his so-called Blue Period. Late in 1901 he had painted some Gauguin-like figures, using the characteristic flat silhouettes and solid blue boundary lines that Gauguin, in his turn, had extracted...