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...less money." And while proponents say the SSC would spark a resurgence of national interest in research that would benefit all sciences, M.I.T. physicist Daniel Kleppner fears that smaller projects simply are not glamorous enough to attract congressional attention. "They lack the dramatic quality to make a big splash," he says, "yet the ability to measure a molecular reaction, for example, is absolutely essential for dealing with problems like the greenhouse effect...
...diving team, armed with new Coach Mike Kennedy, also made a splash against B.C. In the one meter event, Crimson diver Lisa Pierce won with a score of 227.23. Teammate Sarah Blake found second place, and B.C.'s Catherine Lucas took third...
...where he is artistic director, and has retained a splendid company: Bruce Davison as the playwright, Holland Taylor as his discontented sister, Keene Curtis as their fussy paterfamilias and Emmy winner Nancy Marchand as the mother. Puffing up her husband, belittling her offspring, getting slowly sozzled with "just a splash" -- a command she never barks the same way twice -- Marchand at first appears silly and superficial. Like the play, she turns out to have surprising depths...
...example, which contains what is probably the longest description of oral sex in the history of literature. (This story decidedly did not appear in The New Yorker.) For page after page a Harvard undergraduate named Wiley tries to bring his stubbornly unresponsive girlfriend to orgasm: "The whitish bubbling, the splash of her discontinuous physical response: those waves, ah, that wake rose, curled outward, bubbled, and fell. Rose, curled outward, bubbled, and fell." Little in this prose marathon is particularly erotic or offensive; it is possible for long periods of time to forget entirely what is supposed to be going...
That was almost the last splash for swimming; on to track. On to Barcelona. Let's see, is what's her name, the little U.S. distance champion, still swimming? And who was that big American guy who won all the medals back...