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...second period looking to seize the advantage in this tight-checking game. But it was RPI that got on the board first when a sloppy Harvard breakout allowed Engineer Bryan Richardson to move the puck back to Bryan Tapper at the point. Tapper proceeded to fire a low, hard slapper that found its way through a crowd in front and trickled through Tracy's legs to give the Engineers a 1-0 lead...
Harvard's first goal came when catalyst Martins moved the puck back to Halfnight at the point. Halfnight immediately ripped a screaming slapper that Cohagan tipped by Tamburro...
...like with no glitz, no TV cameras and no free champagne--just real people paying for their own beer. This time, there was room to move inside, and the over-whelmingly white audience seemed to be having a super-duper time (many of them had even seen that knee-slapper Blues Brothers movie). Hubert Sumlin was on stage, and as he played into the middle of his set, an entire roomful of born-again blues brothers and sisters lets loose heartfelt whoops of deliverance from the technoheavy Boston club scene...
...That's a good one," Bush replied, as if Beck had just got off a real knee slapper. "That is good...
With new urgency, an old joke is making the rounds in Moscow. It may not be a knee slapper, but the times make it worth retelling. Shifts in Soviet leadership have historically moved from the bald to the hirsute: from the chrome-dome Lenin to the brush-cut Stalin; from Khrushchev to Brezhnev; from Andropov to Chernenko. Which brings everyone to Mikhail Gorbachev, who is nearly as bald as a darning egg, and to the upstart Boris Yeltsin, whose mane of graying locks ruffles conspicuously these days in the winds of change...