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...feel vital," observes Julia Rivera de Vincenty, head of George Bush's campaign on the island. "We are starting to shed our second-class image." Agrees Mario Gaztambide, finance chairman for Howard Baker: "This should convince the people in Kansas that we're more than a winter playground...
...true faith is that of St. Peter and the bishops, not that of the professors. Otherwise the word of God would be abandoned in chaos and confusion," declares Cologne's Joseph Cardinal Heffner, head of the West German bishops' conference. Adds Bishop Moser: "The church cannot become a playground for conflicts of theology...
...down a dark street. When Townshend, 35, called himself "the aging daddy of punk rock," he was not being entirely facetious. Who music can match the tough street impact of punk, especially as Daltrey dishes it out. At 35, he may be one of the oldest kids in the playground, but he is still one of the toughest. Townshend melodies like Pure and Easy, Baba O'Riley and Music Must Change have the structural sophistication of music that is usually presumed to be more "serious." They also have a visceral challenge, a rush that only Springsteen, among Who contemporaries...
...greatest bloody triumph of my schooldays was when Roger asked me if I could play guitar," Townshend recalls. "If he had ever said, 'Come out in the playground and I'll fight you,' I would have been down in one punch. Music was the only way I could ever win. But I've despised him ever since...
...they did against the Minutemen, the Crimson reverted to a helter-skelter playground offense when Villanova applied pressure. Desperate long-range jump shots often reentered the atmosphere far from their target, and sloppy dribbling caused 19 Harvard turnovers...