Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those more inclined to wholesome family entertainment, Jewish-World would be only minutes away. On the lusty waves of the Dead Sea, one could just picture a pirate ride, in which scurvy Hassidic blackbeards unroll replicas of the ancient scrolls in search of buried treasure. For thrills and chills, the Wailing Wall would make an amazing house of horror, complete with slide-projection wraiths and plastic mummies. And for a big finale, one could construct and demolish the city of Jericho twice daily with high pitched sound and invisible lasers...
...three-game sweep gives the Crimson a 3-1 mark on the season and a shocking 2-0 record in the Ivy League. Last year, the squad won a grand total of three games, without capturing a single Ancient Eight contest...
...Introduced only last month, Glycel has already topped $5 million in sales. The famed surgeon's involvement has also proved controversial. Declares Dermatologist Albert Kligman of the University of Pennsylvania, who has consulted for a rival manufacturer: "It's one huge piece of hype, and the motive is an ancient one: money...
...received a second Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1935, and was curator of ancient art at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum from...
...Keeffe always rejected the idea that her scenes of New Mexico were meant as symbols or allegories. But it is hard to see their contrasts of image -- an Indian paintbrush or a wild daisy put against the bleached bone of a ram's skull, and that bone repeating the ancient permanence of mountain line -- without grasping that some transaction beyond the simply formal or factual is afoot. This is particularly true with her flower paintings: magnified closeups, filling the whole surface, of a black iris, a jack-in-the-pulpit, or a calla lily. Almost from the moment that they...