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This kept happening as he sat in the chair, staring at the phone, ill that day and the next. His roommate got scared and told Martin that he was going to sleep in Dave's room "because you're blowing your goddamned mind, you freak," but Martin didn't even hear him. He was completely absorbed in his hallucinations, which kept getting more and more intense, and more and more frantic. Somethings was going to happen very soon now, and Martin didn't want to miss it. Soon he had to grip the chair to keep from being thrown...

Author: By Samuel Bonder, | Title: 'For Betty, With No Hard Feelings' | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...defended her own obsession with Gothic eccentricity in plain terms. "To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have some conception of the whole man, and in the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological. It is most certainly Christ-haunted." She pursued her own art with a strict attention to the order, proportion and radiance of what she was creating. Perhaps that is why Mystery and Manners inadvertently provides a fitting epitaph for the books that she so artfully created before her death. "The fiction writer presents mystery through man ners, grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dust for Art's Sake | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...coming over. Alan does not know that his old school chum is a homosexual, and Michael does not want Alan to be confronted with this piece of news now. (As he says, "Alan looks down on people in the theatre--so whatta you think he'll about this freak show I've got booked for dinner...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Boys in the Band | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

There are three classes: 1) racing bicycles, 2) regular old bicycles, 3) tandems, unicycles, and all other freak vehicles. Classes two and three will receive appropriate handicaps. The victor wins a bicycle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Race to Wellesley | 4/26/1969 | See Source »

From the first cry of "au jeu" (play ball), the game was in fact extraordinary. For one thing, the Expos managed to set some kind of freak record by committing three errors on three balls hit by the same player in the same inning.* For another, they came from behind and defeated the Cardinals 8 to 7. The resulting delirium was just too much for one group of fans who excitedly waved a sign that read: EXPOS-WORLD SERIES OR BUST...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Au Jeu! | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

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