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...Coliseum emptied as the scoreboard flashed. "The Dolphins ARE super." One tired Miami fan staggered down the exit ramp with his shirt open and a half-finished drink in his hand. He muttered. "We can't lose, we can't lose." The Redskin lover next to him looked at his rolled up Super Bowl pennant and said nothing...

Author: By Stuart A. Sundlun, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Super Bowl: LA Looked Like a Giant Pep Rally | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

There is something indubitably menacing about the work of people like Vito Acconci, one of whose recent pieces was to build a ramp and crawl around below it, masturbating invisibly; or the young Los Angeles artist Chris Burden, who had himself manacled to the floor of an open garage, between live wires and buckets of water, so that (in possibility) anyone who cared to might kick over the pails and electrocute the artist. The sight of such gratuitous risk is a vulgar frisson for the spectators, and unlikely to appeal to those who believe that art and life interact best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Decline and Fall of the Avant-Garde | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

Liacos finds that there was observable blood on Largy's face where he arrived at the police station, and that Largey had to be helped up the ramp to his cell by two police officers. Yet, Liacos merely accuses the Desk Commander of falling to provide "proper and timely medical examination" of Largey and Doyle. From Liacos's even findings, it was clearly a matter of rushing Largey to the hospital as quickly as possible: to do otherwise would constitute the grossest negligence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Liacos Report | 12/5/1972 | See Source »

...issues book [thick loose-leaf binder]; it's as good as any master's course." In a swing that spotted the nation from Portland, Me., and Charleston, W. Va., to Grand Rapids and the West Coast, Shriver's routine never varied: he would come down the ramp of his chartered 727 wearing facial expression No. 1, a closemouthed, eye-twinkly look of expectation. Then, as he greeted the local Democratic leaders, he would go to expression No. 2, the Shriver grin-jutting out the lower jaw and squinting his left eye, for a conspiratorial Commander Whitehead effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Shriver Unchained | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

According to Bowyer, environmental considerations have become at least as important a factor as economics in any decision on the project. A number of citizens, he said, had expressed concern that the Common's appearance might not be improved by concrete ramp entrances protruding from the park...

Author: By Mark C. Frazier, | Title: Square Expansion Moves Into High Gear | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

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