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...last year made grappling with the elements a major British sport, followed intensely by the public and pushed hard by the press. The Observer, quickest to capitalize on "Chichysteria," announced a transatlantic sailboat solo race for this summer and attracted 35 oddly assorted entries. The winner of that tough grind was a young Cornish schoolteacher, Geoffrey Williams, who slipped into Newport, R.I., a fortnight ago after 26 days, 20 hours, and 32 minutes en route; others are still at sea. The competing Sunday Times sent four record-seeking Britons floundering by dogsled across mushy Arctic Ocean ice from Point Barrow...
Pioneer of the pseudo-respectable porno picture was I, a Woman, a cheap, Swedish-made study of nymphomania. It seemed destined for the grind-house circuit until Distributor Radley Metzger, a sometime actor and film editor, had the bright idea of booking it into a New York art theater. Since 1966, the film, which Metzger bought for $75,000, has grossed more than $3,000,000, and the money is still rolling...
...poor rank second only to Negroes in the U.S.?work the fields and wreck the saloons in an epic cycle of productivity and degradation. Many men stagger into the fields to chop weeds for $1.40 an hour until they have enough for another binge. Others grind out an endless season of stoop labor to keep their families barely abreast of the poverty line...
...grind a metaphor to dust faster than Godard, and in this pacifist fable, he grinds out dozens of familiar antiwar gambits. But this time the man ner enhances the material, and man ages to prove Borges' maxim correct...
This lead held for 500 meters. At that point, Harvard began to move. Slowly, the Crimson began to grind down the other shell. By the half-way mark, the crews were dead even...