Word: caged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yards a year ago, headlines a supersonic offensive attack that will yely on quickness, not beef. Santiago galloped for 204 yards last year against Columbia, and the Crimson backfield corps of Santiago, speedster Rufus Jones, and junior wingback George Sorbara will be awfully tough for the Lions to cage...
...searched for the Golden Fleece. And roam the Argo does, skimming just above the ocean floor like a giant sled. Designed to map deep-sea hills and gulleys, the craft can descend to depths of 20,000 ft. and remain underwater indefinitely. Essentially, it is a 16-ft.-long cage fashioned to protect a clutch of strobe lights, side-scanning sonar devices and an array of cameras from marine flotsam. The entire contraption is tied umbilically to the mother ship by a thick steel cable. When sonar patterns signal an interesting feature, the video cameras can be commanded to zoom...
...first pets, when I was ten or eleven, were parakeets. My parents figured the parakeets would be easy to take care of, and that I'd never let them out of their cage in my room. They were wrong on both counts. I took the parakeets out of their little jail and trained them to live on the curtain rod. At one time there were eight parakeets living on that rod, dripping like candles in old Italian restaurants. After a while it changed the whole fabric of the curtains. The birds were living on the rod, on my head...
Then he met American Composer John Cage, who was visiting Germany. "He was exotic," Paik says approvingly. "I hear about Robert Rauschenberg from him, and about other artists doing new things in New York. I think, 'Slowly, slowly, America is coming...
Paik had no intention of speeding this process along when he finally came to the U.S. in 1964. He merely wanted to visit Cage and his cronies. His first impression of New York City was far from favorable: "It was as dirty as Paris and as ugly as Dusseldorf." Yet Paik found himself extending his stay: "I keep saying, 'Half more year, half more year...