Word: cro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know if such an era ever existed outside the minds of certain Cro-Magnon professors--some still on the Harvard faculty--and the rationalizing consciences of the proto-arbitrageurs so common on college campuses these days. However you may characterize the generation that came of age during the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, the women's liberation movement, the sexual revolution and the other frightening changes of "the '60s," their '80s counterparts were not in Washington last week...
Evidence of the Hiss Joke as early as the Stone Age has been unearthed by acheologists. Apparently, Cro-Magnon lecturers would talk about buffalo hides or something, and if they ever mentioned our rival species, which at the time was the emu I believe, all the little Cro-Magnons would hiss and then laugh long and hard into the starry night...
Seriously, Berke, I expect more from you. What happened to the idealism of the Meadow Party convention. Cutter John would turn his his grave if he saw that strip, and Milo certainly wouldn't stand for it. Make fun of conservatives and progressives alike--that's great. But facile Cro-magnan stereotypes are not fun, they're offensive...
...earth barriers built around it in a triangular pattern. Within this wedge would be monument-like markers, as durable and detectable as England's Stonehenge monoliths. These structures would bear triangular warning symbols or cartoons as simple in design as the 17,000-year-old cave drawings by Cro-Magnon man in France. One proposed sequence of drawings: three human figures stand by a dump site; one of them drinks from a bubbling well and falls dead...
...Splash, Actress Daryl Hannah, 23, made waves by playing a girl who was part human, part fish. For her next role, Hannah has moved up a few rungs on the evolutionary ladder. In The Clan of the Cave Bear, now filming in northwestern Canada, Hannah portrays a young Cro-Magnon girl adopted by a tribe of less developed Neanderthals. Based on Jean Auel's bestselling novel, the movie, due next summer, will strive for authenticity, a fact that Hannah finds chilling. "They drop us in the middle of a glacier, and we're dressed in skins." Hannah...