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One of Othello's greatest attractions is that the game is easy to learn. Two players alternate putting reversible plastic disks-white side up for one player, black side up for his opponent-on a board with 64 squares. As the game progresses, each player tries to build up...
This is a polemic, although the author does not alert the reader to the argument on the other side. His approach leads to a hermetic absorption with words as objects rather than signs pointing outward-precisely the premise that makes so much "experimental" writing so ghastly and unreadable. Gass also...
Longest Pass in Harvard-Yale game: 27 rows. In 1924, in the thick of Prohibition, Yale student Wally Lipshitz started the alcoholic bucket brigade which eventually saw a half-gallon of Wild Turkey inhaled in 17 minutes.
After this hour of exertion, the women leave the boat ready for the "hard part" of the practice. Post-rows are the "killers" which "really make you ache," according to one rower.
The city of Urumchi has expanded from the mud-walled single-story Moslem quarters, where forage is stored on the roofs, to rows of new brick apartment buildings on the dry river beds outside the city. Camels still graze in sight of the new air terminal. Smoke from a cement...