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...their coarse, nimble ponies, they rode like centaurs. They made cloaks from tanned scalps, and the skin of a right arm would furnish a container for their arrows. ("The skin of a man," noted Herodotus, who could seldom resist a piquant detail, "is thick and glossy, and whiter than almost all other hides.") To relax, they got uproariously drunk on thick wine from the Black Sea area, which they quaffed from the leather-bound skulls of their foes, or they would dump marijuana seeds on red-hot stones and breathe the smoke. Fortunately for archaeology, they buried their dead kings...
...actors and actresses almost losing their heads with the intoxication of laugh after laugh, and of going before the curtain to tremendous applause, the only person in the theatre who knew that the whole affair was a ghastly failure." Poor Shaw was to tussle, with benighted audiences and thick critics for some time over the amusing play. His was a serious drama about the nature of love and heroism--albeit swaddled in dramatic bathos--and all he heard were guffaws from the gallery. Surely this was a farce, with its soldier hero who carries chocolates instead of cartridges, its recently...
...authors allow medieval man and woman to speak for themselves through selections from past journals, songs, even account books. With Gallic condescension, Peter of Blois, for example, wrote home about the wine served by King Henry II of England. It was, sneered Peter, "thick, greasy, stale, flat and smacking of pitch...
Even those students who come with a specific academic goal, sometimes run into problems. Griff Marton, after two years at Harvard, expresses more doubts and disappointments with his experience in the University. He is a large man, over six feet tall and heavy boned. A thick brown mustache makes the lower half of his face more prominent. Several feet of newspapers, from which he will eventually clip articles about international relations and Japan, are stacked in his room. At 26 he looks and feels older than his classmates and he speaks with a measured succintness, as if he has answered...
...LOUIS--Right behind Philadelphia, the Cardinals will make a strong run at the pennant, but will fall short, once again. Reggie Smith's slugging and the combined speed of Lou Brock and Bake McBride will keep the Cards in the thick of the race...