Word: spoiler
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...first and easiest impression of Parker-both on records and in performance-is of a spoiler, full of challenge and low-slung, bemused carnality. "When the world is dead, I'm gonna make the bed/ With the hotel chambermaid ... Gonna shut the bellboy out tonight" runs one of his earlier odes to one-stop sex. Many of his best tunes, like Fool's Gold, portray quite another character entirely, a knight-errant on a lonely and probably hopeless quest for a shopworn Grail: "I'm a fool, so I'm told/ I get left...
...NOTEBOOK: The icemen travel to aimless Troy, N.Y., on Saturday for a game with the deceptively tough RPI Engineers. Led by all-ECAC goalie Ian Harrison, RPI has played last-minute spoiler for the Crimson's playoff hopes the last two seasons, sneaking in on both occasions with a strong final month...
Dartmouth and Army could play spoiler roles, but Brown and Cornell--a couple of patsies--will be despoiled...
...upset was not in the cards last night, leaving but one Ivy powerhouse for the Crimson to pick off this year. That change comes tonight, when first-place Penn comes to the IAB. If the Harvard cagers want to play a spoiler role in this year's race, tonight is their last chance...
...home crowd went bananas midway through the final period when RPI jumped into a 7-6 lead, but Marc Hetnik evened it at seven before Meagher pumped in the spoiler...