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...Freak accidents have left three of the team's top freshmen in casts or on crutches. Lennie Yagima, the squad's number one long-jumper, was leaving University Health Services (UHS) after visiting a friend last week when she stepped in a pothole; 20 minutes later she was back at UHS with a badly sprained ankle...
...opening contest, two freak third period goals by Dartmouth's Rich Ryerson broke a 4-4 tie and enabled the Big Green to squeeze past the seemingly superior Clarkson squad...
...that I am not mad." Indeed, he is not; and that is why the Pompidou Center is crowded. Dali's public hopes to meet a mind which fulfills its two ruling clichés about artists-the painter as old master (Raphael, Rubens) and the artist as freak (Van Gogh, Rimbaud). Dali gives his public a tacky, vivid caricature of both while fulfilling neither. No modern painter has armored himself more assiduously in mediocrity...
SUDDENLY, PACINO WHIRLS in a frenzied freak-out, pumping his body and punching his hands into the air, a wild, abandoned look frozen in his tumescent eyes. "I don't think I can handle it," he whines later to Sorvino. "Things happen to me.. I'm not afraid...I can't deal with it." But Sorvino coaxes him back to the job, ironically affectionate to his protege, paternally hugging him and gesturing warmly...
...transit freak," he says. "I'm seeing something I care about treated very shabbily--I really dislike watching the system fall apart...