Word: nods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Higginson has tabbed senior Mike Rubin (up from the third boat) as his opening day bow to fill the void left by graduation. Senior Karl Forsgaard, who wasn't even on the crew roster last season, has earned the starting two-seat nod, while sophomores Dave "Pasha" Lakhdir and Kevin Gaut will get the call at numbers three and four...
...first short-sleeve days of the year, the kind that slow down your cold-weather metabolism and make you lazy and listless. As President Bok called the meeting to order just after 4 p.m., the air in the room was sticky, and professors' heads were already starting to nod off to sleep...
Although Dylan's face fills the screen constantly, his voice is heard only five or six times, most of those coming from off-camera. Dylan does it with a wink and a nod, the subtle eye brow raise of a born actor; it is very much his film. But like the Rolling Thunder Revue itself, we are left with the idea that maybe it's all a big joke, Dylan giving all those people a last laugh and cruel shove. Allen Ginsburg as some sort of earth father reminds us that the Beats for all their wildness never...
...York, taking an unsuccessful shot at "being Bob Dylan. " After a time, Warren drifted back to Los Angeles, scuffled around the fringes of the pop world. He wrote advertising jingles, played piano for the Everly Brothers (the "little Suzie" who gets mangled by the excitable boy is a wry nod at them), got' a song onto the sound track of Midnight Cowboy and made one album called Wanted Dead or Alive that attracted scant attention. Eventually he met up with Crystal, and took off to Spain, where he sang for his supper in a Costa Brava saloon...
Around him, miners nod their heads in agreement. Many of them are sons of coal miners and fervently believe that only the United Mine Workers protects them from the same kind of exploitation suffered in the pits by their fathers and grandfathers. Dressed in blue jeans and plaid wool shirts, many of the miners spend lots of time these days in the Cabin Creek Coffee House. It is a warm and welcome refuge from the coal-dust-blackened slush outside and the dispiriting sight of the empty coal hoppers-as idle as the miners-on the railroad tracks across...