Word: plugging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, we put all our junk down in order to rest for a moment. I was on the verge of suggesting that we spend the night in the woods, even though there it would be impossible for Joel to plug in his electric blanket...
HARVARD-BROWN: A biggie If Elvis Presley and Paul Anka made comebacks, maybe John Yovicsin and Harvard football can, too. But if not in Providence, when pray tell? One hopeful sign is that Fred Gajewski's finger is healed, and the Gorilla says he's ready to plug up some of those big holes again. Yovicsin said last Saturday to the press. "We're not a real good football team. I'm sure you fellows know that. "Well, today he and his boys go to Providence with reasonable hopes of bringing back an even record. Look, Sec Joe throw. Brown...
...budget or small, no Hollywood film is complete these days without the "promo bit"-cross-country tours by the stars to plug the movie in the press and on TV. Lee Marvin has gone that route enough times to have pained memories: "Blah, blah, blah. Get stiff. Grab a shower. Take a plane. Blah, blah, blah. Get stiff...
...need," says Oldenburg, "is for something to stick in my mind. Like Henry Miller's nose. It has a strange, puffy quality. Then it begins to work within a scheme of resemblances. The nose metamorphoses into a fireplug; the plug into a coin phone box; the phone into a car." Once, just to discover exactly what did happen to a banana's shape when it was being eaten, Oldenburg made five banana shapes out of canvas, filled them with plaster, peeled the "skin" and bit them all down to varying sizes. "I spit the plaster out," he says...
Whitton has been forced to plug non-lettermen and sophomores into his defensive unit to make up for heavy graduation losses there. If Harvard's backs can get to the weak side often and early enough, they should be able to counter-balance Holy Cross threat through the middle. It is the unusual Crusader offensive system, partly patterned after Princeton's old single wing, that will give Holy Cross and early advantage...