Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SHELLY'S LEG by Sara Vogan Knopf; 248 pages...
...this just couldn't happen! I seized Venus by a hind leg in either hand and began to whirl her round and round my head. Sometimes higher, sometimes lower, but attaining a remarkable speed as I put all my strength into the swing... At last, the chest wall gave a heave and the eyes blinked...
...errant mists of memory. From moment to moment, Storey's play is both allusive and elusive - rather like hearing a few bars of music that suddenly break off and then later recur with a disconcertingly poignant resonance. Or like observing an ancient marble statue where the missing arm, leg or head must be pieced together by the viewer's imagination...
...days after he'd heard of his admission and a week before he was slated to give Riverside's valedictory address, Hamlin shattered his leg in a severe highway accident. The break, however, did not prevent him from giving the address in a wheelchair and a full-leg cast. "I would've crawled up onstage if I'd had to," he recalls...
Three months later, he was at Harvard in a cast. "I called John [P.] Marquand [master of Dudley House] and told him I needed an apartment because of my leg. When I got here, a key was waiting...