Word: veer
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Occasionally she simply imitates men writers, particularly D.H. Lawrence, who was the subject of her first book. The Laurentian passages veer close to parody: "She was cutting, biting. She herself was like an impregnable virgin, though not puritanical or squeamish. She was open like a man, used lusty words, told bawdy stories, laughed about sex. But still she was impregnable...
...more insular artist whose stormy tenure with Crosby, Stills and Nash brought him his first fast shot of celebrity. Twelve subsequent solo albums have sold erratically but, all together, form a body of work hard to beat for reckless honesty and his own kind of compound romanticism, which can veer sharply from sentimental to sulfuric at the bend of a lyric. Dylan both mocked and gloried in his informal ordination as a generation's prophet. Young, fully as ambitious in his music, kept closer to the ground than Dylan and sneaked into rock's pantheon like a highwayman...
COLUMBIA at DARTMOUTH--This could be the upset pick for this week. One could imagine Columbia rebounding off the 69-0 Rutgers fiasco and surprising the Big Green. One could imagine the Lions, who nearly won this game last year, getting their Veer offense together and beating up on the Dartmouth defense. One could imagine Dartmouth falling apart at home for the first time all year. And one could imagine "Boats" having a C-minus median. Dartmouth 21, Columbia...
...Navarro's presence has not proved a magical elixir to the win-thirsty Tigers whose record on the eve of today's contest with the Crimson is 1-3-1. Navarro has been trying to implement the much-vaunted veer offense at Princeton and the fifteen starters returning from last year's team have been sorely taxed to memorize the new series...
...game frightfully fraught with irony, Navarro returned to Baker Field two weeks ago, when his Princeton team met a revamped Columbia. Bill Campbell, his successor at Columbia, has finally achieved success this year with the veer offense after four years of experimentation. Navarro, of course, has a four year contract and is just beginning to implement his own veer this season. That Saturday, Columbia beat Princeton for the first time since Navarro left New York...