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...lead singer of the Dead Boys gyrated in a rent pair of blue jeans occasionally flashing one pallid cheek to the congregation. As he crooned in a raspy baritone, he slid one hand into his pocket and drew out an enormous Bowie knife, which he held to the guitarist's throat in a skinnyboned imitation of a hard-ass punk. After picking his teeth with the knife, the Boy tired of that toy, only to pick out a new one for the next number: a pink plastic pleasure machine, with which he caressed his bony pelvis in mock ecstasy between...

Author: By Johanna T. Defenderfer, | Title: Iggy Meets Ziggy | 5/6/1977 | See Source »

...Harvard lacrosse season, which began with hopes for a spot in the nation's top ten and then became a disappointment with last week's loss to lowly Yale, slid toward downright disaster Saturday when Princeton thrashed the stickmen...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Tigers Pound Crimson Stickmen, 17-7 | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...back to the Square, the snowfall was dying out and it was late, but it could have been the next day or forty years earlier for all we felt of time. The snow lay thick on the ground, although it was already melting. We had a drink, and slid in the slush, and threw a few snowballs. But our night would soon be morning, so we headed for home. The next day, I set back to work on papers and readings I had left undone, with one more daydream to distract...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: A Spell of Style | 3/22/1977 | See Source »

...then erupted for a three goal scoring salvo. The typing goal came at 12:24 when Petro lost a foot race to Brian Marrett for a loose puck. Marrett slid the puck under Petro and it inched across toward the goal line, like a slow-moving glacier familiar to Swiss travelers...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Red Humbles Skaters Once Again, 6-2 | 2/24/1977 | See Source »

...breaking score brought a roar from the packed house--one which continued to thunder 28 seconds later, when Murray Dea slid the puck into an unoccupied net, and lasted well past the final buzzer that made the upset official...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Harvard Shocks B.C. In Beanpot, 4-2 | 2/8/1977 | See Source »

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