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...palace entourage, of his wife and of the Shanghailanders who, with Jiang Qing, formed the Gang of Four. "In the old days in Yanan," said one friend, "he would listen first, then talk. Now he talked but would not listen." At the end he would mumble and grunt, interpreters had to bend close to Mao's lips to strain sense from the mumbling. But, by then, all those once close to him had been killed or exiled from his inner court. Jiang Qing transmitted his orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Burnout of a Revolution | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...Grunt! Pow! Gnar! Ouch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Bond Wagon Crawls Along | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

...this particular school of writers, have conceived of sex at Harvard not as an act of Just of procreation but as an intellectual experience. These novels take place at the nation's most distinguished center of scholarship after all; when their characters become physically intimate, why should they grunt and grind like students at some safety school? This is Harvard, and when a couple feels frisky, they run to the library, or study an ancient Indian religious text...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Veritas Between the Sheets | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

...second time cut Princeton's lead to two points on a series of jumpers by guards Dixon and Bob Ferry. The Tigers' unenthusiastic fans--saddened by a mid-week loss to the men from Philadelphia--fell silent, and in cavernous Jadwin Gym you could hear every grunt the giants battled inside...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: ...But Tigers Hoopsters Take Revenge, 60-50 | 2/27/1982 | See Source »

...Stones absolutely tore up the Hartford Civic Center Monday night with a slashing two-and-a-half-hour set that was simply too magnificent to be broken down and analyzed song by song. From the opening riff of "Under My Thumb" to the final grunt of "Satisfaction," the old men of white R and B proved that they still command the most powerful live punch of anyone on the concert hall stage...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Stoned in Hartford | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

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