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...back upstairs, and she swivels toward me on her stool. The tiny straw??those bar ones with the double holes—is pressed between her lips, and I think I hear a tiny swoosh of bubbly air, which means there is a hole somewhere. I put my hand against her knee to steady myself, then leave it there. “You’re really so pretty,” I shout, and everyone around us turns around...

Author: By Kathleen E. Hale, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FICTION: Finagled | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...Terry and Mike Bibby, yet Simon, for those two weeks in March of ‘97, was the unquestioned hero, dropping 30 on Kentucky in the overtime title game and receiving Most Outstanding Player honors. At this juncture, his shot drops down from w in “straw?? to win the game at the buzzer. At once show-offy and poignant, the word cuts to the very nature of our contest and my thinking: “wishful.” It’s breezy fantasy, to be sure, because in no known reality...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Creative Triple Word Scoring | 11/1/2005 | See Source »

...energy remained high and the crowd ecstatic through “Imitation of Life” and “Final Straw?? (which featured some wickedly driving, syncopated drums), and when Buck took out the mandolin for “Losing My Religion,” the crowd was singing every word, watching every move, and cheering every note. On the set closer “Life and How to Live It,” a true shoulda-been-a-hit from 1985’s Fables of the Reconstuction, the band went just a tad overboard, with...

Author: By M. PATRICIA Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: R.E.M. Loudly Refuse to Act Their Age | 11/5/2004 | See Source »

During a required 30-to-60 minute break between the “snatch” and the “jerk,” Clower slumped against a wall and closed his eyes to rest. He breathed through a straw??a trick for slowing respiration that he learned from Tsatsouline. His hands were smeared with chalk...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kettlebell Face-Off Hits Cambridge | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

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