Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still unaware of the forces playing about him, he achieves the illusion of redemption through 15 years of backroads wanderings, false heroic regeneration by using his magic bat as a kind of Excalibur, leading the aptly named New York Knights on a charge out of the league cellar toward the pennant. But he becomes a true hero to modernist eyes only when, ambiguously but courageously (and with a good woman's help), he achieves awareness of what his life and adventures mean. In literary circles this is known as coming to consciousness; in the on-deck circle...
...predecessor. In one example. Bloom County star Milo Bloom dreams of being a syndicated cartoonist thrown into the dungeon for missed deadlines, where he is hung on the wall in chains next to a bearded prisoner. The bearded prisoner jokes that he has been in the cellar for nine months, whereupon Milo says "nine months? Wait a minute. Gary Trudeau?...Mum's the word." Nor does Breathed hold back from poking fun at himself. In one of the funniest cartoons in the book, the bewildered young Yaz Fistachio complains that there is no weirder name in the world than...
...overall the laxwomen will get then first real test in over a week this afternoon. After successive lopsided victories over Brown and Cornell. Harvard will find a far better team in B.U. than the Ivy cellar dwellers it beat up on last week...
...even Dartmouth's loss to cellar dweller Cornell over the weekend proved that in lvy women's lacrosse the Ancient Eight might as well be the Ancient...
...also helped that the opponent was Princeton. At 4-15-1 overall and 3-12-1 in the FCAC, the Tigers are challenging Dartmouth and Brown for the Ivy cellar. Harvard is comfortably at the other end of the picture, now 8-7 in the ECAC (8-10-1 overall) and still holding a two-game bulge over Yale...