Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demoralized fan slumped over a Quincy House pin-ball machine on the Saturday night after the Harvard-Yale football game and sighed with relief. "Thank God the hockey season starts next week...
...referee counted the score and said that the puck had bounced off himself and not a fan so that he had not blown the whistle. Eddie Walsh, who later played goalie for Boston University, made 45 saves for B & N, and Belmont went home with a questionable 2-1 loss. "To me, Dave's shot hit the crossbar," McManama said, while Hynes remembered that the puck definitely went in. McManama also recalled that Belmont won the League that season despite the defeat...
...millions of football widows around the U.S. have long been resigned to hearing the voices of sportscasters booming from television sets and radios on autumn Saturdays, Sundays and Monday evenings. Over the balance of the week, however, a subtle peace usually reigns, broken only occasionally when a dedicated fan tunes in to basketball and hockey games. Now even that peace is threatened: Mattel Inc. of Los Angeles has introduced a Talking Football game that makes it possible for the football widow to hear the maddening tones of the football announcer at any hour on any day of the week...
Donald Barthelme hit the fan during the great Pop art inversion with his short-story collection Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964). Like his counterparts in painting, Barthelme was out to turn the boring, the banal and the shiny waste of the world's largest consumer society into art with a small a-the smaller the better. "Fragments are the only forms I trust," he wrote, and his plotless arrangements of culture-junk, blown-up clichés and absurd juxtapositions of daily monotonies showered down like confetti...
...strange sags of Harvard Football 1972 draws to a close, yet another chapter of the unforeseen is unfolding before the bewildered fan; Rod Foster, who has returned to the starting line-up as halfback, led the Crimson to a 21-14 victory over Brown last Saturday...