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...list goes on. Stan Mikita looks pathetic on the ice now, trying vainly to keep up with his flashy younger counterparts. Arnold Palmer needs divine intervention to one-putt a green, much less win a tournament. Rod Laver won two Grand Slams in tennis but hasn't reached the finals of a major tournament since Jimmy Connors' first communion...
Most of the 17 pices in the exhibit use some sort of glass rod filled with one of the "noble gasses" (you remember from chemistry: that's helium, argon, neon etc.). The chemistry teacher always called those the "inert" gasses, but Sina uses electronics to make the gas-filled rods move in all sorts of interesting ways...
...fitting it was that the Terrier winner came on a power-play goal at 4:09 of the third period as UNH's Rod Langway sat in the penalty box for cross-checking. And as the final buzzer sounded at North Station, no one could question that once again, the Terriers were the best when it counted the most...
With UNH on the power play after Dave Ambrosia was called for hooking, Cornell's Stornick stole the puck from Rod Langley and skated in all alone on Magnarelli, but the UNH goaltender made a sprawling save...
...sorts of people on his travels--rich epicureans who proudly describe the delicious meals they've eaten in various parts of the country (Woody, who hasn't eaten in a couple of days, observes sardonically that "The more ya eat, the more ya shit"), truck drivers, boxcar bums and rod riders, and, of course, fellow Dust Bowl refugees. Both Woody and the viewer are seeing the hidden, dark side of the American dream--the poverty and misery of the unemployed masses contrasts starkly with the affluence of the epicureans and of the priest who refuses him charity on the ground...