Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kitchen in Jordan J--one of the Radcliffe co-ops--is the late-afternoon nucleus of the house, where residents gather around the newspaper-strewn table for conversation and last-minute directions from the evening's chef. There is a feeling of low-key closeness as the 23 co-op members drift in to the airy dining room to share a meal which conspicuously lacks the plastic trays and cafeteria lines faced by most of Harvard's population each evening...
Saying No. Weekends in January and early February, Boulac and his fellow coaches gather at Michiana Regional Airport in South Bend to greet prospects flown in for a packed round of parties, sumptuous meals, meetings with admissions officers and chats with Devine. Boulac admits that all this courting could leave a 17-year-old limp, particularly if ten or 15 schools are hot after him. "The toughest thing for a kid today," says Boulac, "is to say no. When a coach comes 1,000 miles to see you at home, it's hard to say you're going...
...well-intentioned and sometimes quite charming. But he's totally unaware of his choleric insensitivity. He can't get across what he means, at the same time his wife's feelings crupt in baroque and hyperactive detail. Nick literally tries to slap Mabel back to sanity. When the relatives gather for dinner upon her return from six months in an asylum, he exasperatedly demands. "Conversation! At parties people have conversation--you know--talk!" Near the end, his wife tries to lash her wrists, and in a clumsily symbolic scene. Nick stops the cut with a Band...
After every point, Fisher would lean against the wall, fix his shoes, below on his hands, do whatever he could to gather strength for the next rally. After he won the next two games. Fisher went out to speak with his coach...
...words, "screaming for me, the engine was run at full speed for two minutes." He has strewn broken glass on a street in Los Angeles and crawled naked through it; at the Basel Art Fair last year (a feast day, on which many priests and their temple dancers gather to exchange the images peculiar to their cult), he had himself kicked down two flights of concrete stairs in front of an admiring throng. He has been shot, though only by a .22 in the arm, by an assistant. All these penances are recorded with great care on video tape...