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...have watched the Iowa State Opera's version of "Boris Gudonov" complete with introduction by a genuine Russian. Then again, our ultimate pop icon Elvis Presley probably was closer to popular sentiment when he plugged his Sony with a .38, explaining to his manager, who lay wounded by the richochet, in that wonderful Memphis drawl--"Nobody should have to put up with that shit...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Studio Monitor | 4/30/1981 | See Source »

...last minutes of desperation dragged on and on. They were hopeless and deranged, but somehow against all the odds they retained this ridiculous faith. And though capable of extraordinary cruelty, they remained in Hannah's eyes, worthy of extraordinary compassion. They were the exaggerated voices of the minds which richochet at alarming velocities when simply going out to get a paper...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Sabres, Gentlemen, Sabres | 2/24/1981 | See Source »

...enough. Why, then, does there seem to be such a proliferation of bores abroad? One obvious answer is that there are more of them simply because there are more people; a more telling reason may be that there are more bores because there is more communication. The high-speed richochet of news around the world has been a breakthrough for the bores. Never until now have these trudging pedestrians of the human spirit been able to do their tiresome thing for so many heavy-lidded audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: DOING THEIR TIRESOME THING | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

...have known Davies a long time but I have never heard of this proposal (to help the C.I.A. in the Far East)," Fairbank said. "I have never been connected with C.I.A. or heard of Munson before. These allegations of being 'procommunist' richochet around and get expanded in the process, so I have sent another denial to the papers on the chance that five column headlines of baseless accusations can be counteracted by two inches of truth on the editorial page...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank Denies Having Any Affiliation with CIA | 2/19/1952 | See Source »

Seventy seconds later, Lew Preston grabbed a richochet from a faceoff deep in Yale ice and scored from ten feet...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Hockey Team Tops Defensive Eli Squad in Easy Game, 4-1 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

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