Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...connoisseur of the deadpan schlock of pop culture, pro wrestling in its latest guise is like a trip to hog heaven. And the crowd is a big part of the show: part upscale, part down-home. Tuxedoed yuppies mix gingerly with the + rip-his-eyes-out! regulars. Andy Warhol shows up to pronounce, "It's hip. It's exciting. It's America." Gloria Steinem stops by to snort, of woman- mauling Roddy Piper, "He certainly is unfit to wear a skirt." Geraldine Ferraro apostrophizes, "Roddy Piper, why don't you come out and fight like a man?" Meanwhile, each month...
...very deep. I wouldn't let a girl sit out if we weren't deep," Usher said. "On our spring trip, we won two out of three matches without our number one player Evans...
Charlie R. Marchese '85, member of the men's varsity baseball team and last year's All-Ivy first team, tells of the time two years ago the field house packed not-very-stretchy stirrup socks in the bags of some players for their trip to Florida...
...frustrated," he says. "I hated them for doing that to me." On that trip, after unsuccessful efforts to trade with someone, he had to pitch against the Red Sox wearing the not-very-stretchy socks...
Later that year, Goetz applied for a pistol permit. Although he cited the fact that he routinely carried large sums of cash and valuable equipment, his application was rejected on grounds of insufficient need. Goetz was bitter. On a subsequent trip to his family's Florida home, he bought a nickel-plated, lightweight Smith & Wesson .38-cal. revolver...