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Larger than most of the population at 6'6, by the end of the 1986 World Championship season Strawberry also cast a shadow over life itself. And that's just the way the media wanted...
...while, the Easter Sunday edition of his caveman cartoon B.C. may have come as a bit of a shock. The characters were familiar; but B.C. and the Cute Chick were watching the sun set behind a very large cross. As the sun dipped, the cross's shadow extended until it enveloped them. The shadow, Hart explains, was done in blood red to indicate Christ's sacrifice on the cross. The Chick and B.C. were now drawn in white because "His blood has...made us white as snow." In the strip's last balloon, B.C. says, "I stand corrected," which...
...fiction. Does it shock any reader of those tragic and romantic books, stately and muscular, that Hemingway's fingers are thick and his glasses a severe but stylish stainless steel? A man already visibly present in his works became nearly inescapable at the centennial, in the actual shadow of his huge iconic face, and the myths that surrounded his life seemed perhaps to be a fitting commentary to his literary legacy. Perhaps they began to seem as if they are one and the same as his artistic production...
...travel to MIT to participate in classes and drills. This arrangement has surely caused its fair share of physical inconvenience to the men and women who participate in ROTC, but, more importantly, it has burdened them with the stigma of Harvard's official disapproval. Now, with the shadow of Vietnam long since faded, conscientious members of the Undergraduate Council have introduced a bill that would welcome ROTC back to this campus...
...about the student takeover of University Hall? The students who occupied the headquarters of the Harvard administration a generation ago were fighting for causes we can barely understand now. They lived not in the apathetic environment of today's college campuses but in a political climate dominated by the shadow of a war that ended before we were born. They subscribed to political philosophies we now tend to dismiss as anachronistic, or as mere curiosities...