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...minutes of physical inactivity. Seigan, a monk from Brooklyn, NY, graced our buttbones with a special hint on how to fold the pillows just right, so that I could be content in my almost-Lotus position for a good 20 minutes before my sparkling clear concentration began to drift below...

Author: By M.k. Hoffman, | Title: Endpaper | 11/12/1992 | See Source »

Indeed, it is these ironies that seem clearest as the Texas entrepreneur's quixotic bid for the White House ends--for better or worse. Ironies that run thicker than Perot's twangy Texas accent, thicker than the tumbleweeds that drift outside his hometown of Texarkana, Texas...

Author: By John A. Cloud, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE IRONIES OF PEROTISM | 11/3/1992 | See Source »

...hyperbole whisked it away and replaced it with the heavier mantle that bore the title "genius." The fact that Walsh on occasion used words such as "sublime" to describe the play of his team certainly set him apart from those in the pro-football fraternity, whose grammatical constructions often drift toward the martial, monosyllabic and scatological. No less a personage than former Secretary of State George Shultz, now penning his memoirs at the Hoover Institution on Stanford's campus, says, "I have come to admire him as a great intellect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Second Coming: BILL WALSH | 11/2/1992 | See Source »

Although fans tend to respond to owner-caused problems with an emotional drift from players, players deserve a bit of criticism themselves. This criticism should not stem from high player salaries. (After all, given the opportunity, who wouldn't want to maximize their personal income?) Rather, criticism should be directed toward those players who nauseate fans by behaving like insolent jerks...

Author: By Adam D. Taxin, | Title: Tarnished Diamonds | 10/28/1992 | See Source »

...scenario envisages a condensed guerrilla campaign, waged by TV commercials and appearances on the talk-show circuit that he exploited effecte, Clinton benefited initially. But recent polls indicate that many of the voters now uncommitted are Republicans who favored Perot last spring. If they drift toward Bush, as some analysts believe probable, Perot could attempt to court them with a targeted effort in the Southwest and Rocky Mountain states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remember Ross? | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

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