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...also the year that chickenwire was transformed into shimmering, seven-foot walls of ice in the Quad as part of a landscape art project. This was one of three such projects that tried to turn the newly-remodeled greensward into a postmodern palette. One artist threatened to tiger-stripe the lawn with strips of orange sod, but angry Quadlings forced her to content herself with some white lime lines that made the Quad into an airplane runway...
...Tiger southpaw Greg Kuzma scattered four hits and three walks to shut out the Crimson in yesterday's opener. Harvard threatened in the fourth inning, but Kuzma got out of the jam with one of his five strikeouts...
Claudia's great intellectual preoccupation -- as well as the thesis of her historical volumes -- is the random nature of history. Woe to the person who sees any order in the past; kaleidoscope is Claudia's favorite word. Effective enough at first, this aspect of Moon Tiger is overdrawn and finally tedious. A similar strain shows in what are by now familiar literary musings about the ancient stones and mysterious fossils around Lyme Regis. It is possible that Dorset should be cordoned off to novelists for a decade...
...would like to have written one of the greatest poems in the English language -- William Blake's "Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright," with that verse that asks in the simplest words the question which has troubled the mind of man -- both believing and nonbelieving man -- for centuries...
...pitcher. It was a day when Jim and I went down to challenge two other guys from my grammar school, Matt and Kevin. Matt and Kevin lived far away, speaking in relative Bronx terms. Their houses were at least 10 blocks away. It was like the Yankees traveling to Tiger Stadium in Detroit...