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http://hedothepoliceman.wordpress.comPagesCharacters introduced (counting brief mentions and first full intro)Summary/ScenesBig Themes(small themes)Quotes - important and otherNew vocabNotes
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1-YEAR OF GLAD3 - 17Harold Incandenza - high-school tennis starHal blows a prospective scholarship at the U. of Arizona by having a mysterious episode.tennisbathroomI am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.circumflex
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Loc: Arizona, Weston, Mass.Aubrey F. deLint - ETA prorectorHal recalls Orin's story of Hal eating mold.mental illnesshospitals"The grades prior to that are de moi." My eyes are closed; the room is silent. 'I cannot make myself understood, now." I am speaking slowly and distinctly. "Call it something I ate."lapidary
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university roomCharles Tavis. - Hal's uncleHal recovers in a men's bathroom.academiaeyebrowsIt's funny what you don't recall.effete
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backyardKirk White - AZ varsity coachHal is put into an ambulance bound for a psych. hospital.(?)authenticityfacial hair"I'm not just a creatus, manufactured, conditioned, bred for a function."Montague Grammar
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bathroomMr. Sawyer - AZ dean of academicshorror / disgusteating"I'm not what you see and here"..."I'm not."hypertrophied
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ambulanceBill - AZ dean of athleticsspeech"There's more to life than sitting there interfacing...."RICO hearing
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AZ dean of admissionsI once saw the word KNIFE finger-written on the steamed mirror if a nonpublic bathroom.Dennis Gabor
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AZ director of comp.fingers as Xparquet
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Orin - Hal's oldest brotherenfilade
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Mom (moms) - Hal's motherespadrille
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leonine
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martinet
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infantophile
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Cosgrove Watt
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2 - YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT17 - 27Erdedy - pot addictErdedy awaits the arrival of an order of marijuana.addictioninsectsWedekindIs Erdedy Hal? Rel.? We find Hal smoking weed later. Ed: no, see years don't match.
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Loc: BostonErdedy's pot contact (unnamed woman)drugsbathroomIt occurred to him that he would disappear into a hole in a girder inside him that supported something else inside him.rapacious
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Erdedy's homesextelephoneuneven X of lightpleurisy
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televisionThe dope scared him. It made him afraid. It wasn't that he was afraid of the dope, it was that smoking it made him afraid of everything else.
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food/eatingIn the bathroom his throat suddenly closed and he wept hard for two or three seconds before the weeping stopped abruptly and he could not get it to start again.
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...he was unable to stay with any one entertainment cartridge for more than a few seconds...he had a strong anxious feeling that there was something more entertaining on another cartridge...
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3 - 1 APRIL--YEAR OF THE TUCKS MEDICATED PAD27 - 31Himself (James I. disguised) - Hal's fatherHal visits a therapist who turns out to be dad in disguise.Therapymouth"All I know is my dad said to come here."amanuensisHal is 11 (or 14?)
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Loc: near Weston, Mass.LanguageByzantine erotica"Those dry sticky salivaless sounds which can be death to a good conversation."alpenstockHal wears a bow tie
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FathersApril 1st"If Himself made the appointment and paid for it the time's supposed to be mine, right?"assignationsWe're seeing ghosts as we know dad will die (Ham 1.1)
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disguiseeyebrows"I'm an O.E.D. man, Doctor. If that's what you are. Are you a doctor?"blitheAll this talk about language, comments on language. Webster's, OED, etc.
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horroralcoholism"Himself is my dad. We call him Himself. As in quote 'the man Himself.' As it were."JivaroMother's assignations with bisexual bassoonist
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speechfacial hair"I only know one person who'd ever use full-bore in casual conversation."priapisticHal's raquet --> father's cartridge implant
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mental illness"...your family's sordid liaison with the pan-Canadian Resistance's notorious M. DuPlessis and his malevolent but allegedly irresistible amanuensis-cum-operative, Luria P--?"Mondragonoidfood: Sprite, sweater stain from Thanksgiving
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"I'm ten for pete's sake. I think maybe your appointment calendar's squares got juggled. I'm the potentially gifted ten-year-old tennis and lexical prodigy whose mom's a continental mover and shaker in in the prescriptive grammar academic world and whose dad's a towering figure in optical and avant-garde film circles and single-handedly founded the Enfield Tennis Academy but drinks Wild Turkey at like 5:00 A.M...."lyrologistConcept of "fifth wall"
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"..." "Son?" "..." "Son?"
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"It speaks. It accepts soda and defines implore and converses with you."
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"And who after all this light and noise has apparently spawned the same silence?" <--recall Hamlet's last words
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4 - 9 MAY--YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT32 - 33Mario Incandenza - Hal's older brother, Orin's youngerHal gets a phone call from Orin, and doesn't tell Mario.telephonefathers"I want to tell you," the voice on the phone said. "My head is filled with things to say."
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Loc: Weston, Mass.Kenkle - dormmatespeech"I don't mind," Hal said softly. "I could wait forever."
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E.T.A.: Hal's roomBrandt - dormmatetennis"No one you know, I don't think."
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televisionlight/darknessAnother way fathers impact their sons, once their voices have changed in puberty, invariably answer the telephone with the same locutions and intonations as their fathers.
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5 - YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT / YEAR OF THE TRIAL-SIZE DOVE BAR33 - 39Medical attache (unnamed)Attache arrives home alone, puts on mystery videotape.healthApril 1stthe colossal Libertine statue, wearing some type of enormous adult-design diaper, a hilariously apposite image...legation
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Loc: Boston suburbs33 - 37Attache's wife (unnamed)AmericaSaudi Arabiasufism...must unwind without chemical aidmaxillofacial
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Medical attache's apt.religiona triptych of high-quality Byzantine eroticamonilial sinusitis
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tennisApril's Self magazine for the attache's wife, Nass's cover model chastily swathed...thrush
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facial hairThe padded mailer is postmarked suburban Phoenix area in Arizona U.S.A., and the return-address box has only HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!, with a small drawn crude face...DeBakey
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Byzantine erotica"anniversary" does not mean the same thing as "birthday"ad valorem
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languageapposite
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smiley facefebrile
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pique (n)
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5a - YEAR OF THE TRIAL-SIZE DOVE BAR37 - 39WardineClenette retells a series of vignettes involving her much-mistreated friend Wardine and others in the neighborhood.racedrugsshe be cryanfractuousWhipping of back recalls racial tensions of early 20th century (see "tree" in Beloved)
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Loc: Brighton, Mass. (?), unknownWardine's motherBruce falls for Mildred in eighth grade; their lives intertwine and devolve.violenceWardine momma say Wardine tempt Roy Tony into sin.sundries"pelvically anfractuous" -- awesome
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Brighton Projects, Winchester High SchoolClenette - Wardine's friend and half-sister (?)sexShe beat Wardine back with hangers out the closet.
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Reginald - Wardine's well-meaning boyfriendloveSay he love her but never before this time understand why Wardine wont lie down with him like girls do their man...she let Reginald take off her shirts to see how Wardine momma beat Wardine because Roy Tony.
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Roy Tony - Wardine's mother's man, Wardine and Clenette's uncle and Wardine's rapistauthenticityMy momma be the lady Roy Tony kill Columbus Epps over, four years gone, in the Brighton Projects, for Love.
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Delores Epps - Clenette's friendAnd I am gone have a child
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Shantell - Wardine's younger sister (?)Mildred Bonk got high in the afternoon and watched serial-cartridges, and Bruce Green had a steady job at Leisure Time Inc, and for a while life was more or less one big party.
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William - Wardine's brother (?)
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Roy - Wardine's baby brother
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Columbus Epps - Delores' brother, killed by Roy Tony four years ago (over Clenette's mother)
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Bruce Green
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Mildred L. Bonk (poss. Erdedy's contact)
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Tommy Doocey - harelipped pot-dealer
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Harriet Bonk-Green - Mildred and Bruce's daughter
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6 - YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT39 - 49Hal and Mario have a midnight talk about tennis, God, and Himself's death.fathertennis"I'll say that God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and , Boo."countenance (v)We get the first inkling of uncle-usurped-father here: "She laughs at C.T. way more than she laughed at Himself."
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Loc: E.T.A., Boston39 - 42The medical attache continues to watch the cartridge.Godtelevision"Mario, you and I are mysterious to each other. We countenance each other from either side of some unbridgeable differences on this [God] issue."portcullis
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Hal and Mario's roomdeath"How come moms never cried when Himself passed away?"
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Medical attache's apt."Booboo, there are two ways to lower a flag to half-mast. Are you listening? Because no shit I have to sleep here in a second. So listen--one way to lower the flag to half-mast is to just lower the flag. There's another way though. You can also just raise the pole."
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6a - OCTOBER--YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT42 - 49Bain's sister - one of O's past conquestsOrin wakes to fear, loathing and cockroaches in Tucson.sleepsexFor Orin Incandenza, #71, morning is the soul's night.fantodsWe discover Orin is a punter for the Ariz. Cardinals.
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Loc: Tucson, Ariz.image of selfwritten word...Orin wakes with his own impression sweated darkly into the bed beneath him, slowly drying all day to a white salty outline just slightly off from the week's other faint dried outlines, so his fetal-shaped fossilized image is fanned out across his side of the bed like a deck of cards...desiccatedVia Robert H. Bell: "Blattaria implacablus: roaches incapable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated."
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Orin's condoinsectscommunity...the only interesting thing about the script, but also depressing, is that every single circle--o's, d's, p's, the #s 6 and 8--is darkened in...phylacteryWe learn moms's name is Avril M.T. Incandenza
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horror / disgusttelevision...he'd just sat there squeezing the ball, looking at the bird, without a conscious thought in his head. By the next morning, waking up, curled and entombed, it seemed like it had to have been a bad sign, though.neuralgicWe learn father grew up in Tucson
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mental illnessbirds[Orin'd] never come anyplace close to the conscious horror Himself had somehow developed about the Southwest's black widows and their chaotic webs...The "SCHIZOPHRENIA: MIND OR BODY" cartridge, irony of fears vs. treatment
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mind / bodyblack widows...July flooding that sent over a dozen nightmarish dead bodies from a hilltop graveyard sliding all gray-blue down the incline Orin and two teammates had their townhouse on...Toblerone mentioned twice now?
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infinity...she thought the figure he'd trace without thinking on her bare flank after sex was the numeral 8, to give you an idea.
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...P.E.T. technology (since supplanted wholly by Invasive Digitals)...
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7 - YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT49 - 63Michael Pemulis, E.T.A. student, drug dealer (and several other students, all merely mentioned, below)Hal gets high in secret in the Pump Room.drugsfantodsHere's Hal Incandenza, age seventeen, with his little brass one-hitter, getting covertly high in the Enfield Tennis Academy's underground Pump Room...dendriurethaneMario turns 18 in May YDAU
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Loc: E.T.A., Boston, E.T.A.Jim StruckThe medical attache's wife arrives home.secrecy"The Unexamined Life"Hal likes to get high in secret, but a bigger secret is that he's as attached to the secrecy as he is to getting high.unfenestrated
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Pump Room, surrounding locales, attache's apt.Bridget C. BooneMario's designation as E.T.A. documentarian is described.tennisinsectsPemulis and...Struck, both of whom give Avril a howling case of the maternal fantods.flange
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Jim Troeltsch - Pemulis's roommatefilm...not least among the phobic stressors Avril suffers so uncomplainingly with is a black phobic dread of hiding or secrecy in all possible forms with respect to her sons.quail (v)
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Ted SchachtOn the engineering diagrams the Pump Room's maybe about twenty meters directly beneath the centermost courts in the middle row of courts, and looks like a kind of spider hanging upside-down
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Trevor Axford...a certain percentage of the high-caliber adolescent players at E.T.A. who manage their internal weathers chemically.
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Kyle D. Coyle(FN) ...since the gratification of pretty much every physical need is either taken care of or prohibited by E.T.A. itself.
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Tall Paul ShawLike most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.
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Frannie Unwin
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Bernadette Longley
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K. Freer
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Ortho ("The Darkness") Stice
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Dolores Rusk, ?
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Coach Schtitt - German E.T.A. coach
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7a - YEAR OF DAIRY PRODUCTS FROM THE AMERICAN HEARTLAND55 - 60Don Gately - drug addict, cat burglarDon Gately accidentally murders a man he merely intended to burgle.drugsdisguise / costumePeople turned out so identical in certain root domestic particulars it made Gately feel strange sometimes, liek he was in possession of certain overlarge private facts to which no man should be entitled.kismetDon is 27 YDPAH
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Loc: Brookline, Mass.Trent (Quo Vadis) Kite - fellow criminalA difficult section of technobabble -- return to later?addictionQuebec separatism...making honking adenoidal sounds...acetateGR refs
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An insufficiently protected homeAssistant district attorneyviolenceThe bound, wheezing Canadian--the right-hand man to probably the most infamous anti-O.N.A.N. organizer north fo the Great Concavity, the lieutenant and trouble-shooting trusted advisor who selflessly volunteered to move with his family to the savagely American area of metro-Bostonto act as liason between and general leash-holder for the half-dozen or so malevalent and mutually antagonistic groups of Quebecer Seperatists and Albertan ultra-rightists united only in their conviction...[and so on]apocopesD.W. Gately. I have to ask...D.W. Griffith?
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A.D.A.'s wifedisgustlividity
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Separatist lieutenant and anti-O.N.A.N groups liasoncomme-il-faut
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ha: "slow suffocation, mucoidal or no, being no day at the Montreal Tulip Fest"
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7b - 3 NOVEMBER--YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT60 - 63Graham Radar - E.T.A. studentJim Troeltsch takes ill, perhaps not unrelated to his having pilfered Pemulis's pharmaceuticals.drugsmirrorsThe viewer's right under Pemulis's poster of the paranoid king [Future footnote: reads YES I'm PARANOID -- BUT AM I PARANOID ENOUGH]pertussives
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Loc: E.T.A.Hal (?) narrates a terrifying nightmare from his past.illnesseyebrowsI am coming to the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake...the sudden intra dream realization that the nightmares' very essence and center has been with you all along, even awake; it's just been...overlooked...prolix
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Troeltsch and Pemulis's room, Hal's roomhorrorlight/darknessfor them.
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sleepno floor has a face
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...not sure all night forever unsure you're not missing something that's right there: you lie there, awake and almost twelve, believing with all your might.
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8 -- AS OF YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT63 - 66James Orin Incandenza (more formal intro) - founder of E.T.A., filmmaker, etc.We are given a brief bio of J.O.I, and an extensive filmography.fathersuicide...made possible cold annular fusion and approximate energy-independence for the U.S....dipsomaniacalE.T.A. in operation three pre-subsidized years and eight subsidized (as of YDAU)
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Loc: Enfield, DenverOrin reluctantly participates in some airborne pre-game antics.opticsfootballOrin, had been at least partly a legal maneuvercold annular fusionFILMOGRAPHY allows us to put: YEARS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER: