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...time the top of the seventh rolled around, Harvard's offense suddenly found itself four runs to the rear, and still trying to figure out Ravinis...
...election years, notably 1972, is like contrasting a Volkswagen with a Rolls-Royce. A little frugality is clearly in order-but not the cutoff of federal matching funds to candidates, which has sent several campaigns reeling and has all of them hurting. Most desperate is the plight of Democratic Rear-Runner Fred Harris. But more serious contenders for the nominations, such as Republican Ronald Reagan and Democrat Mo Udall, who failed to win early primary tests, are being severely handicapped...
Raids on porn establishments and arrests continue, but they are increasingly taking on the look of ragtag rear-guard actions against an onrushing horde. Says Seattle's King County prosecutor Christopher Bayley: "We filed case after case, but unfortunately, the juries' reactions were so disparate we were unable to come up with anything to guide police and law-enforcement agencies...
...Working on my thesis, I've developed sores on my rear end," Leggett complained. "The good thing about sailing is that you hang out over the boat by your knees...
Ginny first replays her gropings with Joe Bob Sparks, the imbecile high-school star athlete whose lettered jacket "looked like the rear window of a Winnebago with stickers from every state." From there she moves on to kinky sex with Clem Cloyd, the town hoodlum, and then to a proper Boston women's college, "alma mater of vast battalions of female overachievers." When her prim devotion to the rationalism of Descartes collapses under the onslaught of Nietzsche, she drops out of school and into a lesbian affair with a leathery radical. A communal farm in Vermont claims Ginny next...