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...Tigers drove to the Harvard 45-yard line onthat last possession, but a false start andincomplete pass left second-and-15. Burnham missedhigh, and Green's first career interceptionpractically fell into his lap. It was just thelatest late-game miscue by Burnham--two of histhree interceptions coming into the game ended inPrinceton overtime losses...
...mother (hence the author is "removed" from him by one generation). Sarah Payne Stuart '73 treats "Bobby" (as the family called Robert Lowell) as both a biological and literary predecessor, confronting the very madcap hypocrisy running through her bloodline that Lowell did in his poetry--the very hypocrisy that drove the latter many times to violently manic depressive breakdowns in various mental hospitals along the East Coast. However, Stuart sees the situation not as mentally debilitating but as a forum for exploiting her established sense of wry humor and caustically tongue-in-cheek comedy. In a sense, the psychiatrist...
...drove through the countryside to the town best known for its boarding school. I found the health food store. "Does anyone know a woman named Joyce?" I asked the store at large. (My uncle's old roommate hadn't known her last name.) I think she might do acupressure, I explained. No response. What about this man? I continued, again flashing my picture. Still no recognition, though they did direct me to an acupuncture clinic down the street--in staid Groton, of all places...
Meanwhile, night had fallen and my driver wanted dinner. I agreed to head back to Harvard without my green sash, my golden fleece, the right shoe size for my glass slipper. We drove back toward Route Two in silence. All of a sudden, I spotted the Ayer Police Station. Stop! I cried...
...embraced fur with a vengeance. Fur, always a cyclical business, had its best years in the mid-'80s but in the early '90s was hit hard by a combination of warm winters, a recession, a luxury tax and a vehement and well-orchestrated anti-fur movement, all of which drove home the message that fur was a distasteful and excessive luxury. But as with most things in fashion, the trend faded. In 1985, 45 designers were using fur. This year that figure is closer to 200. Giorgio Armani, Badgley Mischka and Carolina Herrera showed fur in their fall '98 collections...