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Word: buttes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with alcohol. Here is no tall, thin, hipless model. The boy is a bit short and very muscular--he resembles classical statues of Greek god. Perhaps he pretends he is centuries away, dancing in some ancient mystic ritual. The glass wall deflects all human contact: he will twitch his butt at you but he will not meet your...

Author: By R.e. Liebmann, | Title: The Half-hearted Hustle | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...later to become her traveling companion, and Donald DeFreeze, the man known as "Cinque" and the self-styled field marshal of the group. A woman, Angela Atwood, held a pistol in her face. When Patty screamed, she was struck in the face with what she thought was a rifle butt, and she was bound, gagged and blindfolded. For a while, she lost consciousness. When she came to, she was being dragged down the stairs and thrust into the trunk of the getaway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Patty's Terrifying Story | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

CLAES OLDENBURG is not just a sculptor, he is a magician. Ordinary objects, under his hands, metamorphose into vital and eloquent forms; he can create an Ovidian phantasmagoria from a cigarette butt, or animate a movie camera. His art works imaginative miracles with the stuff of everyday existence. Typewriter erasers are infused with life, clothespins garbed in symbolism. He's the type of person who could change your water into wine...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Only Connect the Interlocking Image | 2/19/1976 | See Source »

...sorry I smoke. I realize it is bad for me, fear it may eventually kill me and have unsuccessfully tried to give it up many times. But while fully realizing that the aim of the zealots may be well intended, I warn them that anyone who snatches a butt out of my mouth had better be prepared to get my fist in his or hers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Feb. 2, 1976 | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

These reserves of strength and speed are harnessed in physical techniques used to bull past blockers. All four start with the head butt, driving their helmets into the heads of the opposite offensive linemen like bull moose battling for their lives. Once the offensive lineman has been hit, each man has a specialty. Greenwood likes to use the "slip" move, pushing past his blocker. White prefers to knock his opponent aside with an "uppercut" shove under the shoulder. Holmes is a master of the "club," using one of his blacksmith forearms to belt a blocker to the side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HALF A TON OF TROUBLE | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

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