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...whole school watching, he taught me I wasn't a fighter. The cause of our battle has long since been forgotten (at least by me--Freddy, who got into rows like this almost every day, has probably forgotten, too) but the humiliation of my disfigurement--just a bloody nose, really--lives with me today...
...pace of the meet was set when Northeastern's cross country All-American, Bruce Bickford, ran a 4:03.89 mile to nose out Harvard's John Murphy and confirm coach Bill McCurdy's lament that "the close ones weren't going our way." On the brighter side of the race, Murphy, just coming off a bout with tendonitis, notched a personal best at 4:04 flat...
...Claes Oldenburg, the most powerful American artist of his generation, had written five years earlier: "I am for art that coils and grunts like a wrestler. I am for art that sheds hair. I am for art you can sit on. I am for art you can pick your nose with or stub your toes...
...firm of Johnson-Burgee is a lean immaculately turned out dandy with a merrily cackling laugh, a tongue like a sjambok and a power over taste that no other architect can equal. "Old age," he says, "is the most important single thing to have. You just thumb your nose at the world and go about your business. We take about 10% of the work that comes into the office, and the rest we turn down " Johnson-Burgee and I.M. Pei & Partners are the two "hot" corporate firms in American architecture today; and between Johnson and Pei, younger architects tend...
Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy (Asylum). "Send lawyers, guns and money/ Dad, get me out of this." Snub-nose tales of blown chances, aching loss and creatures that prowl the night, fused into a perfect genre piece by the foremost exponent of hard-boiled rock...