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...most exciting thing about watching the Harvard varsity baseball squad stomp MIT yesterday was betting on whether the errant fly balls would smash the wind-shields of cars passing along the first base line...
...thing depends on a pretty face and a lack of presence. Apparently, almost no one can dance either, to judge from the few steps Kay Stone choreographed. It's difficult to judge her abilities, although people could have at least been drilled to allieviate sloppy execution. One number, "Sahara Stomp" was good, using well-rehearsed, technically simple ensemble movements. The music to this, with its heavy beat, was also more successful, avoiding the blandness Schulman often fell into...
...lithium carbonate and Prolixin Decanoate. These "meds" soothe psychotic symptoms, but bring on strong side effects that work as badges of distinction between the patients and outsiders: a freezing of facial expressions, hand tremors, and jiggling of the legs when seated (known by the patients as "the Prolixin stomp"). Most patients knew they were taking "meds" because they were different from "normies"; yet when they tried to be normal by refusing medication, their behavior often became more bizarre. Estroff herself tried Prolixin to experience its effects, but quit abruptly after six weeks of tremors, only to plummet into near-suicidal...
...Muzak of Havana Daydreaming, for instance, also had "My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, And I Don't Love Jesus." Whatever whammy Buffett still has doesn't come out in the songs he writes nowadays, only in his concerts, because there, his barband background can't help but stomp. Buffett's genial Musak musings are a lot easier to take, too, when he serves them up-tempo...
Colson saw the potential in the religious bookstore market, so he hardly wrote about Watergate at all. Just about how nice it was for Jesus to have sublimated those overpowering urges to stomp his grandmother in the name of the Republican Party...