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...offense and defense to thrive at the same time. With both sides of the ball consisting mostly of underclassmen, Harvard’s first new coach in almost 20 years brought in specialists to help his squad on ‘D’ and at the faceoff X. “I think the guys made great progress,” Tillman said. “We’d lost our top three or four scorers from the year before, we didn’t have anyone that had taken a faceoff. It’s a possession...
...holiday altogether or to arrange substitute activities for disappointed lots. Aldermen and city councils all over the country debated their right to call a halt to trick-or-treating. P. T. A. task forces patrolled neighborhood stores to watch for product contaminations. Local hospitals offered to X-ray the loot. In the end, there were widely reported incidents of pin-laden chocolate and strange tasting fruit. A packet of hypodermics was found in a box of cereal in Danbury, Conn., and a Long Island man was injured when he bit into a candy bar containing a straight pin. At least...
Matilda sat in the hall near X-ray holding up a wrinkled little hand. Tiny and looking every one of her 88 years, the woman, despite her broken English, was still with it. She had taken three buses and walked six blocks to get to my office - all by herself. I bent over to take a look at her hand, which Mattie described as "locking and hurting and sleeping all the time." She had simultaneous and rather bad cases of two hand-surgery classics - carpal tunnel syndrome and trigger finger, a tendon-related condition that causes fingers to catch...
...such, it was vulnerable to the X-Files syndrome: a complex story vamps aimlessly, adding shaggy-dog tales and swapping out stars for years too long. ABC's decision--which made the show more like a limited-run British series or The Sopranos--freed Lost to launch an endgame. In last season's finale, the show threw in a mind-blowing twist, jumping forward in time to reveal that several characters made it off the island. The move expanded the canvas yet pointed to a conclusion and made the series compelling again...
This is a relatively new phenomenon. The best political satirists of the 1950s and '60s were prickly outsiders, scornful of the high and mighty. When Mort Sahl sat on a nightclub stool and took out his newspaper to deconstruct the day's headlines, or Lenny Bruce lashed out, in X-rated language, at the political and moral hypocrisy he saw around him, they hardly expected, or wanted, the targets of their satire to show up onstage at the hungry i and join in the laughs...