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...suspension of disbelief. The adults flying the shuttle mission at the U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala., however, gave themselves up to an absorbing hallucination of adventure: Walter Mitty in zero gravity. Most of them fell into their roles with amazing and rather endearing conviction. They put on powder blue NASA flight suits and duck-billed hats with gold braid on them. They threw themselves into training. When it came time for their shuttle missions, they imitated precisely the cadences and vocabularies they had heard so many times on television beaming in from their weightless heroes. "That's affirmative...
...American Dialectic Society, he dispatched his researchers to tape more than 1,000 interviews with homeborn locals in all 50 states, working from a list of 1,847 questions. Sample: "When a firecracker doesn't go off and you break it in the middle and light the powder, you call it a ----." The answer in New York City: "Corpse-maker." Atop these replies the Cassidy team piled phrases and phonations from local newspapers, diaries, letters, the Federal Writers' Project state guide series and such other reference works as the Linguistic Atlas of New England. It also scoured more than...
...stats are scary. Harvard has been victorious in its last six meetings with the powder blue gridders, and the margin of victory has averaged almost 20 points. In the 43-game history of the Harvard-Columbia series, the Crimson has won more than 75 percent of the contests by a net total of 435 points...
HARVARD 38, COLUMBIA 17--The Crimson offense will run by, through, over and past the Powder Blue. Harvard says "Speed Kills." Maybe, maybe not--it's certainly more than enough to beat Columbia...
...says. "Like Valley Forge. They did it their way, too, against the British. No one told them from Washington how to fight. This is the point: frustrated Americans trying to recapture some glory. The vets were told wrong. The people who pushed the wrong buttons all took a powder. The vets got the raw deal and were left holding the bag. What Rambo is saying is that if they could fight again, it would be different...