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Brown (3-3) opened the scoring on a 78-yard drive capped by a 1-yard plunge into the end zone by Lane Wood. On Brown's next possession, the Holy Cross nose guard, Andy Martin sacked Brown's Mark Donovan in the end zone for a safety...
...pretty depressing. The senior faculty was ganging up on the tired looking junior professors, saying things like "How's the weather down there, eh?" or "If you can push an egg roll with you nose across Weeks Bridge, you automatically get tenure." Most of the administrators were watching "Porky's" on the VCR's, and throwing hors d'ouerves at the screen. The few undergraduates present were massaging the feet of the rest of University Hall. I lifted some caviar and a forgotten cummerbund, found my date and rejoined the real party...
...relationship does provide Conroy with opportunities for flashbacks, ominous foreshadowings and the airing of ambivalences about South Carolina and New York. Though aggressively Southern, Tom keeps his nose pressed against the windows of Manhattan sophistication. He is particularly fond of pricey restaurants where he can indulge his taste for overseasoned prose. At Lutece, for example, "I tasted the wine and it was so robust and appealing that I could feel my mouth singing with pleasure when I brought the glass from my lips. The aftertaste held like a chord on my tongue; my mouth felt like a field of flowers...
...horse has a mind," Rays says, watching the colt. "He gets scared and bold, sure and unsure, sick and well. He says, 'Maybe. I don't know. All right . . .' and too often we don't listen." Then, with one rein, Ray pulls his mare's head around until her nose touches his knee. He rubs her forehead, a gesture that has become a trademark of Hunt clinics. "She knows my mind, and I try to understand hers, and she knows I'm her friend...
...first runner-up. Then another hand attempted to pull off her winner's sash. Saengravee was popular with the audience, but hardly with other contestants. Some accused her of having her makeup done outside (rather than using Avon cosmetics like everyone else), wearing false eyelashes and having had her nose fixed. When the melee died down, Saengravee wore her crown and sash and was smiling bravely...