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...friend stopped by, aligned herself between Haber and his roommate, and stood motionless as the clubs flew close by her face and her back, coming close but never quite hitting...

Author: By Robert Lunbeck, | Title: Stu Haber: Harvard's Finest Juggler | 11/12/1975 | See Source »

...summer, Newsweek reported, a group of swimmers shore. Someone yelled, "Sharkl" and scores of people ran back to land to scour the sands for weapons. Armed with driftwood clubs and beach umbrellas, the bathers re spotted the creature, surrounded it and beat it to death. When the thing drifted motionless and the people could get a better look, they saw it wasn't a shark after all. It was only a baby whale...

Author: By Irene Lacher, | Title: Tooth Decay | 8/5/1975 | See Source »

...little sleep and empty night and headlights that beam vaguely, duskily across the spread of road and desert that lap across each other here, where the march of flourescent poles has not yet reached. Catching our headlights in smoothflowing creaminess, the antlers pierce mutely our forward fall: motionless, steady in their chrome cage, at the fore of our seamless void, too strong, too immutable in their decay for our quick-lipped, easy spun gasp of time...

Author: By Edmund Horsey, | Title: Elsewhere in the Summer, and an Elk Head | 7/15/1975 | See Source »

...fastest at the end of a game. When he doesn't want to throw smoke, he is not shy about switching to his curve or change-up, even when the count is 3 and 2. By that time batters are usually so intimidated that they simply stand motionless, watching a called third strike. Says Oriole all-star Third Baseman Brooks Robinson: "Is there fear? Sure there's fear. There's an old baseball saying, 'Your heart might be in the batter's box, but your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Throwing Smoke | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

...fears that her husband Torvald (Sam Waterston) will discover her secret dealings with the malignant moneylender Krogstadt (Barton Heyman), she makes the panicky gestures of a heroine in a silent-movie melodrama. When she reads the riot act to Torvald prior to slamming the famous door, she sits as motionless as a pillar of ice. Presumably, this translates as "frozenly adamant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: A Doll's Hearse | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

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