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...smiled benignly as they sloshed status-label Scotch. Thirty-two-year-old lawyers who had just made partner inflated huge helium balloons, tied them to their cars with ropes hundreds of feet long, and then stood there grinning and drinking. Fifty-year-old business honchos got mud on the knees of their gray flannels playing touch football among the parked cars and joshed one another loudly about bifocals and bald spots. The older wives wore mink, and the younger wives wore ski sweaters and down vests. They helped with the elaborate tailgate picnics everyone brought, but otherwise stood somewhat aside...
Such verbal knee jerks might be dismissed as harmless. But they never were by Orwell. "The slovenliness of our language," he wrote in 1946, "makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts." And it is a surpassing irony that the title Orwell made famous has become a symptom of the very sloppiness he deplored: what he called a "Meaningless Word," a ramshackle abstraction inviting everyone to come in and stop thinking for a while...
...nirvana. He impresses Dorothy with his tacky style; he gives her a real two-carat topaz; he escorts her to her senior prom in a ruffled sky-blue tuxedo. Eric Roberts is a brilliantly spoiled and clutching Snider--he has as many wants as a child on Santa's knee. He is overjoyed when Dorothy's talents land them in the Los Angeles fast lane, yet he wants more, and throws petulant tantrums when the power brokers of sleaze take Dorothy over and exclude him from the action. Hefner eventually orders Snider out of his Mansion, telling Dorothy that...
...wasn't Nolan's knee that kept him out of about half of the games this season, but a calcified bruise in his thigh. For a senior who with Captain Joe Azelby made up what was considered the best linebacker duo in the Ivy League, his injury during the first scrimmage was. Linebacker Coach George A Clemens says, "a tough pill to swallow." In the first game against Columbia, he had to move to the sideline after the first two plays...
Although Michael Garvin was on the sideline with an injured knee when Holy Cross travelled to Cambridge this year, it would have been difficult for him to outshine his older brother. This year Kevin Garvin finally got his chance to take center stage on the Crimson defense...