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...Frescoes from the Past," in Life on the Mississippi," Mark Twain. For a reason nobody knows, Twain decided not to include this as a chapter in Huckleberry Finn. The tale is perhaps too completely black; it evokes throughout a strange mixture of gut-laughter and gut-fear. One thing for sure: having read it, you won't think the same of Huckleberry Finn, or its avuncular author, again. Not for abjurers of dead baby jokes...
After two running plays went for five yards, Dartmouth went to the air. Green QB Chris Rorke hit David Anderson for a first down at the 31. Rorke rolled left, looking downfield, but his receivers were covered. He tucked the ball to his gut, and sprinted around left end for a first down...
...year ahead is a little crazy, sure -- but take heed. Back in 1959 a tousle-haired young reporter for the Boston Globe came home after some lonely wanderings with a young Senator and mused on paper that the Kennedys were coming. Bob Healy's evidence was mostly in his gut -- but so right. The New York Times's Johnny Apple roamed the prairie hustings with Jimmy (who?) Carter in 1975 and startled the world with a story in October that the Georgian might...
...fill in the blank), how are ya'? Where are you living? I'm in blank House--we got a triple for five people, a walk-through. What classes you taking? Oh, really? I took it last year. A flaming gut, no shit. So, where did you go this summer to get that great tan? You say you roller-skated along the banks of the Nile to raise money for the homeless and then spent a month touring beaches in Spain, France and Italy? Sounds really great...
...stormy relationship with Sam Rayburn," says Caro. "Then, at a crucial moment, just when you want to know what someone is thinking, you'll run into a telegram or note saying 'Phone me tonight.' That's when you feel the impact of the telephone right in your gut." In researching L.B.J.'s role in the passage of the 1957 Civil Rights Bill, Caro says he has been reduced to deciphering scrawls at the bottom of telephone-message slips...