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...matter how hard you look, it seems that the Nixon "nobody knows" is the same as the Nixon everybody knows: a man to laugh at, not to laugh with. LBJ, at least, could be pictured as a foul-mouthed reckless driver who in all probability pinched his secretaries' behinds. We must ask if out new Chief Executive--a man so intensely serious, so devoid of anything one associates with human warmth--can survive the pressures of the Presidency. Can we be led by a man who smiles like a zombie and whose idea of beauty is a replica...
...THOUGHT of playing a villain like the Sheik--who wrestled Bruno Sammartino in the title bout--and being hated by little boys I had never seen before would be a traumatic experience I couldn't handle. And to have angry epithets and foul garbage thrown at me as I entered the ring would make however much money I got too little...
...interfere with placing an event in perspective if the obscenities shock readers sufficiently to obscure the rest of the story. At the same time, as barriers to obscenity are lowered, the words will inevitably be robbed of their shock value. If Charles de Gaulle were regularly quoted using foul language, who would have understood the depth of his rage when he used the term chienlit (literally, "crap in bed") in referring to last spring's student-worker uprising? "As one who savors a good obscenity," says Roy M. Fisher, editor of the Chicago Daily News, "I would hate...
...frantic effort to keep Harvard from scoring, Dartmouth began to foul heavily, but the Yardlings capitalized by sinking most of the resulting free throws. Brian Newmark was a key man in the last few minutes, as he continued to dominate the boards...
Only 5-10, with the longest hair per inch in the Ivies, he got open for a long jump shot from the right. Dover got it back on a tip-in but Jackson dropped in another jumper. Eli reserve Jack Langer hit from underneath, Morgan made a foul shot, Eric Gustavson and Hardy sank jumpers and then Jackson made a layup and another long bomb, giving Yale a four point lead...