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...right. Readers who do not understand what the hubbub is about will leave this book little the wiser. Brodkey is obviously talented, but his skills are quirky and obsessive, perhaps more mesmerizing to him than to casual spectators. There is Innocence, for example, which contains what is probably the longest description of oral sex in the history of literature. (This story decidedly did not appear in The New Yorker.) For page after page a Harvard undergraduate named Wiley tries to bring his stubbornly unresponsive girlfriend to orgasm: "The whitish bubbling, the splash of her discontinuous physical response: those waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atavistic Gondolas | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

Yale running back Buddy Zachery's 82-yard TD was the third longest TD run from scrimmage in Yale history...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Spikers Set to Change Ways | 10/14/1988 | See Source »

Fans endured rain and 43-degree temperatures to watch Columbia break a 44-game losing streak, the longest in major college history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia Stuns Princeton, World; Penn in First | 10/11/1988 | See Source »

...extra point failed, and the Lions trailed after three, 10-9. Princeton went up after three, but Johnson's 2-yd. run put the Lions up for good and ended Division's I-AA's longest losing streak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia Stuns Princeton, World; Penn in First | 10/11/1988 | See Source »

Following Keith Walker's second field goal of the game, a 28-yarder that gave Army a 27-3 led, Yale came alive with two quick scores in the fourth quarter. Buddy Zachery went 82 yards for the third-longest scoring run in Yale history and quarterback Mark Brubaker threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Tom Szuba...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia Stuns Princeton, World; Penn in First | 10/11/1988 | See Source »

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