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...classic bedroom farces of Georges Feydeau, sex is not in the mind, the heart or the groin; it is in the feet. His bourgeois lechers stalk women in the streets, jog from bedroom to bedroom, jump into the wrong beds, kick open the wrong doors, and are finally caught flat-footed in the tangled web of their own deceit. The goal of a Feydeau play is ostensibly the bed, but is actually bedlam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Cuckolds in Cuckoo Land | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

...Charles Evers in Mississippi, that he was an early Viet Nam dove and that he helped sabotage Haynsworth and Carswell. The code word for all these attitudes is "Chappaquiddick." The word is heard often and is used, says Alabama Democratic State Chairman Bob Vance, "like a kick in the groin." In the Deep South most folks criticize Kennedy for having an unmarried girl in his car, which offends Southern Baptist fundamentalism. In the more moderate upper South, folks talk about Teddy's abdication of responsibility by swimming away from his duty in panic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could He Win in 72 Despite Chappaquiddick? | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

...Caravaggio jumped to his feet, laid the man's cheek open with the edge of the dish and tried to skewer him with his rapier. Defamation, rent arrears, carrying an unlicensed sword-the lawsuits piled up until in 1606 Caravaggio murdered a man by knifing him in the groin over a game of tennis and was banished from Rome. There ensued four bizarre years of flight and intermittent patron age, as Caravaggio blundered in and out of scrapes in Naples. Malta and Sicily, executing masterpieces on the run. In 1610 he died of malaria in the fishing village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The First Bohemian | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

Felix Adedeji scored two goals and looked nearly recovered from his groin injury. He also set up Harvard's other two goals, which were scored by Chris Papagianis and captain Charlie Thomas...

Author: By Eric Pope, | Title: Adedeji Leads Booters Past Brown, 4-1 | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

Harvard's ability to stand up under the pressure of Brown's fast and aggressive style of play. Charlie Thomas will start, although he has not fully recovered from his ankle injury. Felix Adedeji is still suffering from a groin pull, and cannot be depended on to play the whole game...

Author: By Eric Pope, | Title: Booters to Face Former Ivy Champs | 11/13/1971 | See Source »

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