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Five long seconds later, after Frank Urso had whipped to ball to midfielder Greg Rump for the tying goal, the chant had faded. A chastened Cornell crowd retreated to the track in front of the stands, embarrassed by their premature and fortunately penultimate celebration, and waited two more overtime periods before pouring onto the field for the last time...
...Smith are at their best with the unique character of Russians - their glazed and hostile public faces that dissolve in private in almost alarming conviviality. Their sentimentality and love of children - the obsessive way in which a babushka watches a child in a playground to make sure its rump never touches the snow. Their alcoholism - vodka bottles come with tear-off metal tops, and the bottle, once opened, must be finished. Their chilling fear of strangers and even friends - the result of long experience with informers...
...mammal department itself is a rectangular oasis of light and better air at the rump of the museum, which you only come upon after a confused trip through the intestinal corridors that wrap themselves around the gray floor-to-ceiling cases and racks. The mammal room is also the only place on the fifth floor that you'll find living mammals. Edie Rutzmoser works there, and in the corner there's Charles P. Lyman, curator of Mammalogy, who is talking on the phone and asking someone where he can acquire a pair of canvas duckback hunting trousers. The walls...
...point to buy some "whorish drawers...and also discolor them just a little behind." His obvious pleasure with his wife's propensity for gushing flatus in the act of union is not altogether new to Joyce's readers. Bloom saw the "mellow yellow smellow mellons" of Molly's rump as a kind of ultimate healer of all his tensions, of his conflicting sense of envy, jealousy, abnegation, and equanimity, because they were "insusceptible of moods of impression or of contrarities of expression, expressive of mute immutable mature animality...
...branded on the rump by a fellow patron of the Eagle. "But part of the whole thing is the sense of danger, of not knowing what is in store...