Word: clod
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Opponent Benjamin Dreyfus '01 touts the support of the Society of Physics Students, where he serves as treasurer. Vice presidential candidate Benjamin Wikler '03 has had a supporter clod in front the Science Center on stilts, handing out fliers to passers...
...whipped in the face by the jockey aboard another horse; most horses would have backed up after such a blow, but Cigar just got mad and blew away a stellar field. During the Hollywood Gold Cup in California last July, Cigar was hit in the head by a huge clod of dirt, and Bailey needed all his strength to hold back the horse before letting him go on to an easy victory. Cigar's folk-hero status was further enhanced after the Woodward Stakes at Belmont in September, when a cigar-smoking Jack Nicholson met him in the winner...
Walling far outshines the other cast members. Kitt Harasaki, as Dr. Mitchell, seems unnaturally stiff and Colin Stokes, the husband, appears effective as a paternalistic clod but uncomfortable with the language...
...newest work of Poland's Krzysztof Penderecki, 57, a leading European composer who has increasingly been changing the gardes, from avant to rear. UBU REX, which opened the Munich Opera Festival, is based on the 1896 play Ubu roi, by French Absurdist Alfred Jarry, about a loathsome clod (read: typical bourgeois) who murders the King of Poland and, supplanting him, ruins the country. Yet even with the events of the past two years before him, Penderecki draws no particular political symbolism from the text, and his harmless, rather charmless tonal score simply galumphs forgettably along. Far more Ubu-like...