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...Dereks' conversation. After a promo by Playmate Tweed en deshabille and a parody commercial, the program rips through a "Ribald Classic," stages a centerfold photo session on Shannon and tosses in a humorous feature on Andy Kaufman, male chauvinist champ presumptive, wrestling Playmate Susan Smith to the mat in a "primal battle of the sexes...
...could chew. The Crimson was forced to go up against Wilkes right after the first string wrestled Nebraska. Although the wrestlers won only two individual matches against the Big Red. the meet was highlighted by some outstanding wrestling by the Harvard team against some of this country's best mat men. Wrestling ranks as one of the top sports at Nebraska. The team members are not renowned for their scholastic achievement, they come to Nebraska to wrestle...
...achievement. His work was mined and sifted by later artists as though he were a lesser Picasso; seen through this or that critical filter, it could mean almost anything. The basic données of color-field abstraction, which treated the canvas like an enormous watercolor dyed with mat pigment, were deduced by Frankenthaler, Morris and Noland from the soakings and spatterings of Pollock's work. Along with that went the "theological" view of Pollock as an ideal abstractionist obsessed by flatness, which ignored the fact that there were only four years of his life (1947-51) when...
Palestine twitches on the small white mat, struggles to raise her head, and failing, falls back again; she cries, then stops. Some slice of light has caught her attention. The nurse in bright pink carries a bird cage to the mat, and for a moment Palestine is pleased by two jumpy canaries-one black, one yellow. Now she rolls back and forth. Her legs, still bowed, kick out spasmodically. You cannot tell if she hears the music in the nursery or the murmurs of the other babies, stacked up in their double-decker box cribs. She acknowledges...
Whether in the pro ring or on the Harvard mat, wrestlers engage in their own version of physical combat. What ultimately distinguishes the genuine from the absurd is that while Stan "Heart-punch" Staziak bloodies the ring with his ludicrous antics, the Crimson wrestlers use their mat as if it were a canvas, worthy of easel and brush...