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...this fall Procrastination and I broke up. In my new dormitory room. I found another fantasy fulfilling girlfriend. Organization cut a sleek figure in a three-piece suit and neatly applied makeup. Before we had even spoken to each other, she had me moving with feverish speed. Lists, lists, lists-I had to make lists: lists of room-filling objects to buy, of esoteric classes to see; lists of letters to write and applications to prepare. I gave her every list I had, but Organization still wasn't satisfied...
However, the lissome Crimson booters did, despite the sleek field conditions and the on-again, off-again rain, parlay deft ball control and the soccer talents of five exceptional freshmen into a convincing victory over Bowdoin, 2-1. Saturday afternoon at the Business School field...
...through the Venetian blinds. A tenor sax investigates the upper registers of despair. Ned Racine (William Hurt) drags voraciously on a nonstop series of cigarettes. He wears a Clark Gable mustache and a Zachary Scott hat. And one night, as a Dorsey-style orchestra plays That Old Feeling, a sleek, tanned woman in white emerges from the darkness of the band shell and into the rest of Ned's life...
...create. The result: a 33-ft. fiberglass sloop, the Hobie 33. Equipped with a retractable keel and a mast that can be easily removed for transportation, the boat is small enough to be towed behind a car on a trailer, yet large enough to sleep up to seven. The sleek vessel is priced to sail away at about $40,000, vs. as much as $70,000 for other similar size vessels...
...started," said one horrified eyewitness, "with a small snapping sound." Then the noise mounted, first seeming like a wrecking ball thudding against the sleek new building, and then like an explosion lashing through the crowded lobby. When the hideous din subsided, replaced by the muted cries of the injured and terrified, the carnage was staggering: 108 people lay dead in the atrium of the sleek, 40-story Hyatt Regency Hotel. More than 180 were injured, and at least three more died later. Some victims were pinned for hours beneath the tons of steel, cement and cables. Said Mayor Richard Berkley...