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...been castrated by eleventh grade health teachers, Garbo clothed and smoking a cigarette would be enough to turn us on. In fact eroticism in art derives as much from what is suggested as what is shown--those of us old enough to appreciate eroticism have already found out by hook and crook what everything looks like and don't need very much of it unbared on the screen to heighten the impact...
...race highlights was at the start in Hopkinton. The Bermans, a husband and wife team, were lined up, and just as the gun sounded a promiscuous runner pinched Mrs. Berman in the right buttock. Her husband responded, in the name of valor, with a right hook to the man's jaw but missed and decided to start running...
Research, and scholarship in a broader sense, are essentially authoritative, as Sidney Hook points out (Saturday Review, April 19, 1969). Students in graduate schools do indeed recognize their roles as apprentices and young scholars...
Modern technology has spawned a new kind of instrument maker. The old craftsmen of music worked with wood, strings and valves; the new ones hook up wires, transistors and wave generators. The sounds the new products make are not echoes of the human voice but a bizarre collection of buzzes, bleeps and squawks. Nonetheless, the men responsible for them are the potential Stradivaris and Steinways of electronic music, and their forbiddingly complex instruments are made for the musicians of the future-who are destined to be as much composer-technicians as performers...
...hard right hook dropped Cullen to the canvas, seconds after the fight began. Weeks peppered left jabs at his groggy opponent until the referee mercifully stopped the bout...