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...lose today, the racquetmen will catch their breath and meet an excellent Navy squad on Saturday. Though not as formidable as Penn, Navy's star Craig Dawson and company will be shooting to sink Barnaby's boys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Face Penn in Ivy Opener Today | 4/13/1973 | See Source »

...seems dismal now. That it is brown and dying; not the round, pink living thing it once would become; when pressed and bruised with kisses. It seems more desperate now. It's fullness never opens slightly, seducing the quietest breath of appreciation, or pain. It seems the dead, angry thing it is. The perpetual pout, not a sultry coyness, but the pout of dismissing the world...

Author: By Alta Starr, | Title: A Southern Sister/Inside This Closed Northern Shit | 3/27/1973 | See Source »

...hard kneecaps; rusty and almost frozen, down on the unheated wooden floor. Steam and smoke from its melting drift upward and wrap themselves about her loins and her heart; finally centering and being released in the hot tears that fall from her eyes with each deep intake of breath and sharp gasp of sweetly curdled praying words...

Author: By Alta Starr, | Title: A Southern Sister/Inside This Closed Northern Shit | 3/27/1973 | See Source »

...musicians were of many Black musical persuasions, yet their different sounds have one commonality--rhythm, the gift from Africa. Rhythm is existence, the beating of a heart, the in-and ex-hale of breath. Rhythm is life. It has to be, for as Duke Ellington tells us, "a drum is a woman...

Author: By Cynthia Bellamy, | Title: Jazz Came Home | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

Lest any budget-pinched shopper follow that lead, he had best be advised that a diet of canned, all-meat dog food is overly rich for humans, just as it is for dogs, and can lead to diarrhea, bloating and bad breath. But leavened with cereal-based dog food, it might even surpass in nutrients the diets of snack-happy American teenagers. One of the Oklahoma students' tastier recipes, for instance, calls for two cups of Gaines Gravy Train, heated with water, salt, pepper and garlic. That provides much more protein and vitamin A and B1 than does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: To Each His Bone | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

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