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...year excavation of the medieval burial site, spoke about the history of Sutton Hoo’s excavation. The site attracted the attention of archeologists in 1939 when a spirit medium directed an amateur to a ceremonially buried ship, Carver said. But Sutton Hoo remained untouched until Carver??s excavation in 1983, he added. Carver discovered additional burial sites and the graves of several executed men, he said in the lecture. By chemically analyzing the sand of the previously excavated burial site, Carver said he and his team were able to produce a more detailed picture of Sutton...

Author: By P. KIRKPATRICK Reardon, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Series on Middle Age Archaeology Debuts | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

According to an account in Rubin’s book on Murakami, Murakami and his wife had a special bed made to accommodate Carver??s large build for his expected visit to Japan. Carver suddenly died of cancer before he could make the trip. “I thought I could do that at any time, and all of a sudden he died, and I was shocked,” Murakami says...

Author: By Liz C. Goodwin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Translating Murakami | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...first trip to the U.S., Murakami visited Raymond Carver, whose complete works Murakami has put into Japanese. Carver wrote muted, tense short stories and poems, a style reflected in Murakami’s work. Their meeting seems to have had as much of an effect on Murakami as Carver??s prose has had on his style...

Author: By Liz C. Goodwin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Translating Murakami | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...tireless provider would grin warmly as he heaped beef or chicken onto a ready plate. Dartboard has only the best things to say about the quality of his aunt’s Thanksgiving meal, but could any holiday compare to that Wednesday in mid-October when the Carver??s basso-profundo voice intoned, “Allllll that good turkey” as he piled the poultry high...

Author: By The Editors, | Title: Dartboard | 12/5/2003 | See Source »

...paper and a special font (“Golden Cockerel,” for the curious) that offers, according to a note at the end of the volume, a “face of notable heft, with a dense color on the page and sharp serifs reminiscent of the carver??s chisel.” The intended effect, obviously, is one of words hewn in granite, with Rudenstine as a 21st century Moses, handing down a new set of commandments—although perhaps we should call them “suggestions,” instead, since...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: Pointing Us Nowhere | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

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