Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Listeners often squirm at Smith's more explicit songs. In the title track of her Horses album, which is an incantation of violence and brutal sexuality, she sings of "white, shining silver studs with their noses in flames" and of a suicidal lover who "picked up a blade, and pressed it against his smooth throat." Redondo Beach, set against a catchy reggae beat, tells of lesbian love. Other Smith songs like the hard rocker Free Money are easier to take. In surrealistic blues like Birdland, her mordant fragments of verse can be evocative...
...Crimson swordsmen took in a slice of the Big Apple this weekend, and returned from their two-bout affair tasting both victory and defeat. Edo Marion's traveling band of blade brandishers slashed their way to a convincing 18-9 win over CCNY Friday night, but the Crimson fell to the steel of perennial powerhouse NYU in a hard fought 15-12 bout on Saturday...
...saber squad, whose record stands at 2-1, succumbed to the All-American blade artistry of St. John's Majtenyi, who helped anchor the Junior International USA team...
Spurred on by a stunning third round performance by the saber team, Harvard's swordsmen slashed their way to a 14-13 come-from-behind victory yesterday versus the blade brandishers from...
...perching it on the head of Mercury, give it a classical density as form. The headgear worn by his Man in a Top Hat (1927) has the formal and slightly absurd dignity of an old liner's funnel, played off against the scrolly beard and bronze blade of a nose...