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...used a recitation of the event and its aftermath as the climax of Sunset Strip. In the days after Pryor was found in shock a few blocks from his Northridge, Calif., home, his attorney declared that he had accidentally ignited a glass of rum with a butane lighter. Few believed it. Stories from the rumor mill are darker and more credible for a man who had made habitual use of cocaine part of his onstage act. They said that Pryor had been "freebasing"-mixing coke with ether to produce a more concentrated substance, a high with a mule kick-when...
...however, as he would any other routine, showing how the pipe he used to smoke the drug ruled his life and then how he rejected the help of concerned friends. Pryor mixes serious judgments ("If you have been free basing longer than two weeks, you are a junkie") with lighter observations ("Of all the people free basing, have you ever heard of anybody blowing up?"). It is, in the end, difficult to tell whether Pryor is speaking out against free basing or if he is just warning people to be more careful when they...
Goalie Tim Pendergast is back in the net and looking better than ever. He is lighter and quicker than last year, when he turned away over 60 percent of the shots that came...
...cartridge belts into the breeches of their weapons. Suddenly the guerrillas' fire shakes the aircraft violently. The door gunners respond with bursts of pinkish red tracers that hit the ground like sparklers. Even at 1,000 ft., the ground looks too close. The firing from the ground gets lighter and we come in low, blurring at treetop level for nearly half a mile. The blossom of a purple smoke grenade opens beneath us. Four figures run toward us carrying a man. Before the wounded and unconscious officer is even inside, we are taking off again. The soldier who brought...
Northeastern played more physically than the lighter Harvard icewomen, but what the Crimson gave up in strength, it made up for in hustle and finesse...