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...miss little things that trigger my memory," said Alain Porter '80. "I never thought I'd miss this little picture window upstairs in my house...
Like some other theorists on sex, Stoller believes that ordinarily there is no sexual arousal without scripts-the dramas and fantasies that people create in their minds to trigger sexual excitement. These scripts, he says, are shaped by early traumas that lead to unsolved sexual problems. Without a suitable script-in a situation such as a gynecological exam or a staid nudist camp&$151;there may be touching or nudity but no arousal. With a script, sexual conduct, almost always involving hostility, becomes a way of turning frustration and defeat into ritual triumph...
Irion uncorked the first whiff of grape shot when he opened the game with a three-point play. A tip-in by CCNY's blue chip guard Rich Silvera gave the New Yorkers an 8-7 lead until Jonas Honick pulled the trigger on a straightaway jumper to ease the Crimson into the lead...
...Gilmore shot and killed a gas-station attendant and a motel clerk, both of them students at Brigham Young University. There were no apparent motives. After his trial and conviction in the motel slaying, Gilmore explained in court that it had been "something like watching someone else pull the trigger, looking at the scene through a wall of water...
...second lap, a rear wheel fell off Lauda's car and he skidded into a guardrail. His car burst into flames, searing his lungs with intense heat and poisonous flames from the volatile fuel. Unable to trigger the car's fire extinguisher, Lauda lay trapped while three fellow drivers struggled to free him. His face and head were badly burned and disfigured, the oxygen count in his blood fell below the level necessary, in theory at least, to sustain life...