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...standard is high, and if Bryant no longer goes down into the trenches to shove, pummel and growl at his players as he once did, he is no less a force in their lives. Surveying practice from a high tower overlooking two full-size fields, one grass and one AstroTurf, he notes every detail. Says All-America Tackle Marty Lyons: "He's seen things in me that I didn't know were there." Adds Linebacker Barry Krauss, another of the latest crop of Alabama All-Americas (37 so far): "I love him. The biggest thrill is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Biggest Bear in the Briar Patch | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...only do we call hero sandwiches submarines, but, in Baltimorese, closet is cupboard, and sidewalk is pavement-as in London. Also, a kitchen sink is a zinc, asparagus is sparrow grass, and hydrangea is high geranium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1978 | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

Surely Professor Cassidy would like to know that in Baltimore when a man mows his grass he is said to be out on his lawn with his "paramour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1978 | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...Conductor Arthur Fiedler and the National Symphony Orchestra for the final evening's entertainment. The Hyatt Hotels Corp. offers ten "theme packages" for the concluding blowout, including Monte Carlo night, rodeo parties, an Arabian Nights banquet and a Tom Jones party, in which the ballroom is filled with trees, grass, live pigs, chickens, llamas and a tame tiger, while guests gnaw on turkey drumsticks and slurp wine out of goatskin bags. One group had an Arabian Nights party for its mostly male membership and held an auction of comely young "slave girls." Just as the successful bidders claimed their prizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Convening of America | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...been giving cufflinks to your uncle for the last five years. He's bored with cufflinks and he's probably gotten too paunchy for his French cuff shirts anyway. It's time for something new. Perhaps you could try getting him something to read. You could get him Gunther Grass's novel Flounder which is all about food and the history of male-female relationships since pre-historic times. I imagine that it would help if your uncle happened to be a Freudian psychologist, all that food-sex imagery, but what the hell, he'll probably never read it anyway...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Brain Coral for Uncle Eb | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

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