Word: calvins
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...much they'll get from their famous son-or how much they'll have to bear. Some of the burdens are already lifting. The carpetbaggers are leaving, Larry Flynt has closed his paper, the junk shops are starving. Jimmy Carter will be the youngest man since Calvin Coolidge to return from the White House; and surely neither he nor his equally impelled wife can predict their own movements or calculate their effects. They have not really lived in Plains for ten years. But though the townsmen are curious, they're not postponing normal life-not even...
...Calvin Trillin...
...Take Calvin Trillin. Please. At the very least, take his book, a thoroughly diverting novel that nips at the unexposed flanks of the newsmagazine process, particularly the so-called back of the book, where a new sect or fad is no news until the magazine's editors/correspondents discover it. There is, for example, the "dirty bushes" story involving a gardener who prunes shrubs into phallic and vaginal shapes. And the quixotic "two-thirds stocking" fad, where the only stumbling block for the writer is what two-thirds means -two-thirds of the way to the knee or just...
...haven't really reached our potential," Crimson point guard Calvin Dixon says. "Nobody has seen us play our best basketball...
...readjustment of the Crimson's zone offense allowed sophomore guard Calvin Dixon relatively free reign over the offensive lane, and he responded by directing the Crimson attack in its most impressive campaign since the win over UMass. Dixon chalked up nine points and five assists in 40 minutes of play...