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...Rag Dolls & Rolling Eyes. Mornings, when the men are fresh, the routine includes a scrimmage. Scrubs and regulars, the boys smash into each other as if they were playing the big game of the season. "We're just dying to have some of you show us you're football players," Duffy tells them. "All you have to do is rack somebody up a few times and you'll play plenty...
...team trainer gets a workout helping padded giants collect their wits or their wind after a particularly savage block. Practice, after all, cannot be stopped just because a first-string tackle has staggered out of the huddle, rag-doll limp, his eyes rolling in his head. Says Rose Bowl Hero Kaiser: "You see a guy out in a canoe on Red Cedar River with his girl and a blanket and you wonder what you're doing it for. But other times you get out there feeling good and you just plain want to butt heads...
...piano lessons, which he never mastered. He felt they cramped his style. He worked in a soda fountain after school, and spent his hours at home working out his own method of playing the piano. By the time he was 14, he had started a piece called Soda Fountain Rag, and he played it so many different ways that people thought it was several compositions...
...unfamiliar ways until they become surreal and emetic. In Gaston he describes a rat: "It looked rather like a great hairy carrot; it crouched there as all rats do, as soon as dusk has fallen and there is nothing to distinguish them from a lost slipper or a forgotten rag except that long worm lying along the floor . . . that suspicious-looking shoelace that will suddenly, swift as a whipped top, grow tense with terror." Gaston of the title is a black-spotted rat, as big as a rabbit, and he is stalked through the sewers of a French provincial town...
...family said was true-about the cruelty of secret police investigations and about the dictatorship of Stalin. It has turned out that history was really forged. And I? I do no know how to change my soul for the fourth time without fear that it will become a rag...