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...Lions had upset Harvard's Ivy League rivaland fourth-seeded Columbia in Friday's play-inround to earn the semi-final berth...
Born in Shillington, Penn., in 1932, Updike first submitted work to national magazines while in high school. At Harvard he was the president of the Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow Street social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
Upon searching his car, the detectives discovered a rental lease for a cabin in the Adirondacks, a sleeping bag with a contraption to seal the top of the bag, sealed back doors, knives, rifles and a semi-automatic. The cabin was found stocked with guns, knives, whips, shackles and night vision glasses. It was equipped with closed circuit TV and the Windows were painted black. The detectives believe that my coach's plan was to knock me unconscious, scare off my mother and take me there...
...Food Beirut" differs in that the cups are filled with semi-edible leftovers from the freezer mixed together in a blender. Plain "Beirut" is played by everyone; "Food Beirut" is played only by pledges who must engage in the activity until they all puke...
...general premise behind this vision of Pericles, whose framing device--a basketball court infested by pre-adolescents--sets the stage for the play's ruling aesthetic: a massive, hallucinatory flashback to middle school. The "players," a group of kids whose dress and language evoke a sort of archetypal, semi-mythical 1980s Experience, are unwillingly pressed into service as actors by a terrifying bag lady (Gower, the play's narrator, here played with an alarming intensity by Jessamyn Conrad '00). Since they retain their eighth-grade personalities, the romancing and sexual innuendo of the first half of the play is spiced...