Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blond son Craig, 9, steps in, weighs the deer, calling out its weight in a clear, childish voice to three women sitting like the three Fates at a table behind the scale. As the hunter approaches the table to fill out a 15-item deer killer's form, an assistant clips a metal tag to one of the deer's hind legs while Carlson picks up a metal bar, wrenches the animal's jaw open to examine its teeth and then, grasping a small caliper, proceeds to measure the base of one of its antlers...
...much supervision. For many of them, the deer season was the only chance each year of really getting free of feminine domestication to hunt, drink and rough it, a combination of Boy Scoutery and male blood rite. In New Jersey, for a brief period, deer hunting also became a form of semi-legalized mayhem as unqualified hunters, often as loaded as the weapons they carried, took to the woods with buckshot, and, along with their deer, managed to kill a fair number of cows-and fellow sportsmen...
...have to believe me. I swear it's true. I saw the satellite photos of the cloud formation. The Weather Bureau would never admit it, but it's impossible to get those kinds of clouds around here at this time of year. It's too cold for them to form naturally. So it had to be an enhanced storm--nukes in the upper atmosphere. That's the only way we could have gotten the blizzard that we did. They had to make...
...form of financial aid that Glimp said might be established with the money raised would be "student assistantships"--academic posts designed especially for undergraduates...
...They Come," done by Richards on the B side, suffers from a lack of sincerity. As Jagger told Chet Flippo, "It's the attitude." Precisely; that goes for reggae as well as rock. God knows Richards has smoked enough ganja to earn his dreadlocks. But reggae is an indigenous form. Richards grew up in Kent, not Kingston, and his reggae, though technically admirable, is obviously affected. Add to this the suspicion that Richards, who tends to self-pity, is trying to identify his fiasco in Canada with the dilemma of Cliff and other reggae artists...