Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Game days are going to be a lot easier for us as far as lugging things across the river," McNeeley said. Previously, the sports administration was housed...
McNeeley said he has one regret about the newMurr Center. In his old office on JFK Street, theHarvard Square restaurants were merely a hop and askip away. Now he must get a little exercise andwalk across the river...
...pretend that the failure was O.K. She certainly did not understand what became apparent later, that Greg's real passion, his father's ghost mocking him cruelly, was to dress in women's clothes. And in middle age, sober, married, a mother and a novelist (Walking into the River), she still can't quite accept this joker in the hand life dealt her. She writes, "There are no greeting cards that read, 'Thinking of you fondly, transvestite...
...long road from that disillusion, and near the rock bottom that alcoholics talk of having to hit, Lorian was up in Michigan on the Big Two-Hearted River, the subject of a photo shoot. Never mind that Ernest had actually fished the nearby Fox River, which had more trout, and merely used the Big Two-Hearted name because he liked it. Her difficulty was that she was drinking 32 cans of beer a day. An old, reformed alcoholic camped nearby told her she needed help, and that the truth hurts...
...that, you're a drunk. The author went through detox, then months in which her shaking hands shook less. And finally--family history, of course--learned to fly-fish properly. Taught, she insists, by a vision, possibly supernatural, of a naked man, fly rod in hand, drifting down a river on a raft. Sure. Anyhow, she is now able to cast a Royal Coachman so that the fly walks on water, "and the circle of fish shatters like beads in a kaleidoscope, bathing me in light...