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...Tomassoni would quickly tell you, that is the future and this is now. Big Green Captain Peter Clark struck the telling blow seven seconds into the third period--his freak shorthanded goal put Dartmouth ahead to stay in what would be its first win over the Crimson since 1981, a span of 23(!) games...
That last prognosis is, alas, faulty; Jackson's life has never been normal. For a celebrity of his magnitude, to be seen is to be smothered, to be loved is to be abused, to be a star is to be a freak. His childhood story is as poignant for what he says he missed ("slumber parties") as it is pathetic for what he endured. During rehearsals, he recalled, he would look out and "see all the children playing . . . and it would make me cry." Before a tour of South America, "I hid, and I was crying while I was hiding...
...happen in hockey, a freak call turned the momentum back the Crimson's way. A Big Red "too many men on the ice" penalty was converted with marksman's precision--laser-sighted passing got the puck on the stick of sophomore Derek Maguire, who rifled a shot with Al lafrate speed and Ray Bourque's accuracy past Skazyk to give the Crimson the lead for good...
...nowhere, a hyperactive skinhead ran up to us, punched me in the nose and promptly ran away. I don't lack experience with the big city. The standard mugger protocol is to ask for the wallet, and failing victim compliance, to take it by force. This clownish freak skipped that step entirely. What is done in other cities for lucre is done here for love alone...
After all, it worked for Au Bon Pain; never underestimate the legitimacy that a simple French moniker can lend to the most shamelessly overpriced fast-food freak show. The greatest irony of all is that the Cambridge City Council smugly thinks it's done its part to help out the homeless by preventing ABP from ejecting its regular horde of homeless patrons. It seems to me a safe, clean place to live might be more important than the right to freeze to death after munching an overpriced baguette...