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...pelvis heaved up and down, her buttocks labored while Kurt, now leaning closely over her, propped on one elbow, watched her closely but dispassionately, as he might have watched a conjurer explaining his tricks. And as she reached her climax, her head cleared of all its confusions and she emerged into a world as stark and white as the walls of her hospital room. That's it, she thought. That...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Well, he thought, well, well, well' | 7/11/1975 | See Source »

...sentence--some concatenation of words on the screen that abruptly intrudes on this bedroom scene. What can it announce, appearing as it does so unexpectedly and with such strident urgency? "Election Day: November 1968," it blurts, and in the process hints to us that this is no mere sexual elbow-ribbing we are about to witness, but a story, an episode, an adventure that promises to make some comment on the more serious, more profound events that transgress in executive corridors and legislative cloakrooms...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Soggy Suds | 4/10/1975 | See Source »

...frequently opened the mail of his accuser, New York's bellicose Congresswoman Bella Abzug. Nor could he if he had wanted to. Lawyer Abzug had demanded that the CIA turn over its file on her, and purged of what Colby considered sensitive items, it now lay at her elbow in a long, fat manila envelope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CIA: Prying into Mail, Plotting Murder | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

...coach Herb Brooks has not molded this collection of behemoths into a slow, brawling, elbow-flinging club. Brooks, in fact, admires the coaching of Harvard's Billy Cleary and emphasizes skating in practice. If the opposition wants to fight, Brooks will oblige them. But the Gophers can skate with the best of the East, as they showed last year when they outskated B.U. on the way to taking the title...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Harvard Begins NCAA Quest Against Minnesota | 3/13/1975 | See Source »

...indeed the slushy ice surface and the elbow merchants from Ithaca, N.Y., took their toll Friday night. ("It was a very, very brutal game," Thomas said.) But nobody is buying it as the reason for such a convincing defeat, least of all Roth. "Bullshit" was all he had to say about using the Cornell game as a lone excuse...

Author: By William E. Shedman, | Title: Rock Steady | 3/11/1975 | See Source »

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