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...Expectorate -- to spit." Barry Smolin points to one of 20 vocabulary words he has written on the blackboard. The class titters...
...student last year who used to call his spit 'luggies,' " he tells his tenth-graders. "He could lean out my classroom window and gather enough spit to reach down to the ground and then suck it up again...
When the Crimson wasn't good, it was at least funny. In late February, Crimson forward Andy Janfaza broke in alone on an empty Clarkson net. As his teammates later teased him, Janfaza could have picked the puck up, put it into his mouth and spit it into the net. Instead, he slapped a shot from 20 feet that soared left of the net. Harvard won the game, 3-2, but Janfaza's missed goal stood out more than his team's triumph...
Tribal art is never free and does not want to be. The ancestors do not give one drop of goanna spit for "creativity." It is not a world, to put it mildly, that has much in common with a contemporary American's -- or even a white Australian's. But it raises painful questions about the irreversible drainage from our own culture of spirituality, awe and connection to nature...
...spectacle of Giamatti's descent from academic grandeur to the commercial muck of professional sports. If there is a life for former Ivy League presidents, it should be conducted as unobtrusively as possible in a reputable embassy or blue-chip foundation. At the other extreme, certain tobacco-chewing, spit-on-the-hands, belly-up-to-the-bar baseball types wonder what in the hell a gabby professor is doing running a league and, next year, the whole show. Oh, yeah, Giamatti. Whattid he ever...