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...path followed by the heavy oars-women this season was laced with triumphs. After disposing of B.U. and Northeastern in routine fashion, the crew proceeded to swamp all comers in match races. But it never got a shot at Penn until the Sprints; and in yesterday's final, Radcliffe was placed two lanes away from the eventual victors...
...breaking away, Anderson turned the 1980 campaign into an exercise of total unpredictability. As he well knows, he has only the slimmest chance of winning the presidency. Just getting on the ballot will require him to wage a long guerrilla campaign through a swamp of bewilderingly complex state election laws, and he will get no federal cash because he is not running as a party man. Historically, voters regard an independent candidacy as hopeless and make their choice between the major-party nominees...
...overlap in the plays of Chekhov and Gorky, the two men differ in their angles of vision. Chekhov was a cardiologist of the wounded heart; Gorky was a cartographer of a scarred social landscape. Chekhov's characters transcend their enervating environment; Gorky's characters drown in the swamp of their surroundings...
...never theless, introducing new twists and outrages that not even the most warped spectator could have foreseen. The novel adopts a formal, almost fussy style to convey lunacy, as if Berger were describing low deeds to a maiden aunt. At one point, Earl finds himself face down in a swamp, having been punched from behind by Harry. Berger writes: "He was not paralyzed, but someone's large foot was planted in the middle of his back. Owing to this impediment he could not rise...
...Paulo, the largest city on the continent, has all the attributes of a cosmopolitan, lively urban sprawl. Crowds swamp the downtown area, some of which is closed off to traffic, throughout the day, giving the city a liveliness foreign to anywhere in the United States. One of the largest communities of Japanese outside of Japan lives in Sao Paulo, as do Syrians, Lebanese and Italians. The sweet smell of alcohol-powered automobiles now chokes the air along with the exhaust fumes of more conventionally constructed vehicles. The city's "red-light district" rests, like a leech, along the side...