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Updike speaks of 'Rabbit' Angstrom in a detached way: Rabbit was "happy working in Mrs. Smith's garden." He "pined after an animal existence." Updike wouldn't be, and doesn't. The dust jacket photo for A Month of Sundays shows him in a pin-stripe suit and shiny black shoes, flashing a tolerant half-smile at his walking companion, who has been cut from the picture. He holds two crisp autographed copies of his latest book under his left elbow, while his left hand absently attends to an itch on his right pinky...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: A Keyboard Confessional | 3/6/1975 | See Source »

Glenn Fine and Roland Smart chipped in 14 and 12 points, respectively, to help defeat the Bruins. Fine shot only three-for-six from the floor, but managed to sink all eight from the charity stripe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Five Trips Brown; Booker Leads Crimson Squad | 2/22/1975 | See Source »

...Chippey. Chippey is averaging 14 points per game and eight rebounds. He will be joined up front by 6 ft. 4 in. Steve Switchenko, who is hitting at an 11-point clip, and 6 ft. 6 in. Brad Berger. The backcourt is led by Jim McGuire, the leading charity stripe man in New England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Hoopsters Host Hapless Elis | 2/7/1975 | See Source »

...loss of the contest and Needleman obscured Lou Silver's game high of 38 points for the Crimson--including 22 points from the charity stripe...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Harvard Cagers Drop Three | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

...some way a demonstration of its own making. There are no "occult" design systems; everything can be deduced from a simple grid and from serial repetition. So in Construction from a Theme from 1946 (1967), the five main colors make their appearance in turn: first a stripe of blue pushing out the black at the top, then a lavender stripe displacing the blue at the left, then a red behind the lavender at the bottom and finally an ocher displacing the red band on the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Superb Puritan | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

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