Word: rucks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Computers and sophisticated mailing lists now make it possible to tailor-make magazines that home in unerringly on the most specialized of interests, occupations, skills, pleasures. The result is a clutter of publications, and the way they seek to define themselves, and to separate themselves from the ruck, combines high-mindedness and hustle...
...Crimson nearly made the slight lead stick, but with seven minutes to go in the game Amherst literally pounced on a crucial Harvard miscue to take the lead. The Cantabrigians won a ruck on their own five-yard line but a Harvard forward fumbled the ball in the endzone and Amherst recovered...
...Clive Davis, former czar of Columbia now making a comeback with Arista Records, picks her out of the ruck of New York City cult figures and decides her rock and roll is worth the Big Play, assuming it's carefully cultivated like a wild plant in a hothouse. Her rock grew out of her poetry readings and it's angry poetic rock. About such prime time subjects as homosexual rape near deserted high school lockers to the tune of Land of a Thousand Dances. A whole herd of stud boys surrounds Johnny by the lockers and his head is getting...
...early minutes of the game, the pack rolled over the B.C. scrum in a 50-yard drive to the five-yard line. Scrum half Dave Barlow snatched the ball from a loose ruck and snuck it across the line for Harvard's first four points...
...pity, however, something that cannot be said about the verses turned out by scores of young poets who write in the confessional mode. Suffering, after all, is universal, and confessing it carries a certain social prestige. Precisely because it is so tempting, few poetical practitioners rise above the general ruck. One who does is Anne Sexton, 42, who has carried readers with her in and out of mental hospitals, through marriage to a Boston executive, two children and sundry passions. In her most recent volume, she writes in "For My Lover, Returning to His Wife...