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...very long. Even on the first B.U. power play at 1:38. Leigh Hogan was banished to the box for charging Penalty-killer Kevin art book the puck in alone on tournament Brian Durocher, but couldn't finish the play as the Terrier's freshman goaltender was there to poke the puck off Carr's stick. It was an omen of things to come as Durocher repeatedly foiled what scoring bids the Crimson offense could generate...
...Rooney Goes to Washington, Veteran TV Writer-Producer Andrew A. Rooney is allowed to poke into agency offices, asking impertinent questions and sizing up the federal establishment. The winner of an Emmy and other awards, Rooney has written TV essays on such subjects as doors, chairs and bridges. His beat is not politics, and at first his meanderings through the capital seem almost pointless. Yet he is a master at extricating the revealing from the commonplace, and he soon accumulates enough eccentric encounters to indicate that Franz Kafka would feel at home in Washington today...
Sargent's most important tactic has been to label Dukakis young, inexperienced and rash. Speaking as the "voice of experience," Sargent has been able to poke holes in Dukakis proposals, causing the Democrat to waffle on the issues...
People in University Hall apparently favored the three-track variety because they would allow students to open their windows and poke tier heads out without having to remove panes of glass. The Massachusetts Hall contingent wanted the cheaper two-track windows...
Nabokov is a brilliant wordsmith and an impressive artificer. If that were enough, Look at the Harlequins! would be a very good book, and as it is, little nabokovs will find it entertaining and, often, funny. Others may find it empty--Nabokov's narrator takes a poke at "readers who are all head," but there is not much pleasure for the heart in this book...