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...Narrating televised matches, he distracts viewers from the most exciting points with his grunting and groaning and then leads them on field trips into his jungle of mangled metaphors under the pretense of analyzing what has just happened. Collins described a startling Borg groundstroke: "That was a Lovelace deep-throat return." Billie Jean King, his broadcast partner, couldn't muster a response...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'The Archangel Plucked' | 7/7/1981 | See Source »

...form. In fact, it was perhaps the worst public performance of his presidency. Aides were quick with excuses. Reagan was a little tired, they said, because the White House air conditioning had not worked well the night before. The air indoors was dry, and that was why his throat was raspy. His briefing book on foreign policy had been delivered later than his book on domestic issues. In posing practice questions over lunch in the Cabinet Room that day, his advisers "did not do all we could have done to help." The press conference was only the third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fumble on Foreign Policy | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

...plans for the future," O'Brien says, adding, "When property is available at a reasonable price it has thus been sensible for the University to buy it." The possibility that Harvard would convert a portion of its extensive commercial holdings to institutional use sits like a lump in the throat of many city officials because that action would exempt the property from the tax rolls. "Harvard buys more and more property as opportunities come up," Vickery says, "and I'm concerned that they might convert some of those buildings," despite strict new guidelines on institutional expansion...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp and William E. Mckibben, S | Title: Harvard Real Estate Inc.: | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

Hamlin, however, is not above a little mischief. Last year, a few of his buddies at the Pi Eta club got drunk and headed over to Quincy House where demonstrators were protesting the showing of Deep Throat in the House dining hall. "We made up a couple of banners and marched into the building chanting. 'Don't miss the boat, see Deep Throat.' We thought the First Amendment issue had precedence," the Government concentrator explains...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Making It With Pride | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...violence right in our neighborhood.' Even if you believe, which I don't, that changing the laws is the way to change society so abortion is unnecessary, you're walking to the legislature past a place where, every day, 30 or 40 unborn children are killed." He clears his throat, blinks water our of his eyes. "Women are being pushed, or going to, that choice with a degree of hopelessness and pain. You're accepting that (when) walking...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: The Gospel According to John | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

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