Word: cups
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Manic as Samaras' "transformations" are, they still possess a system and a history; his subverted objects have a common ancestor in Meret Oppenheim's surrealist icon of 1936, the fur-covered cup, saucer and spoon. Yet they are not mere footnotes to Surrealism. Samaras has a way of undercutting, or predicting, his more "mainstream" contemporaries; in 1961, for instance, he laid 16 square textured tiles flat on the ground, four by four, as a sculpture. In the Whitney, it looks like a waggish parody of Carl Andre's floor pieces-until you remember Andre's sculptures...
...special vocabulary of serious tasters, wines can be "acid" (tart, sour, with the bite of natural fruit acids), "astringent" (puckery, like a cup of strong tea), or "balanced" (with just the right combination of acid, tannin and alcohol). They can be "big" (with a detectable heaviness on the tongue, not light or watery), "clean" (absent of extraneous tastes like cork or oak), "flinty" (dry and sharp), "full-bodied" (thick, robust), and "maderise" (from Madeira; turned slightly brown with age, past the prime). They can be "petillant" (slightly sparkling or effervescent), "thin" (deficient in alcohol or body, watery), or "woody" (with...
...players on one team were suspended for up to three years, and their stadium was closed down. For spitting at a referee, Jerusalem Hapoel's Zion Turjeman was suspended for four games (weakened by the loss of its star left wing, the Jerusalem team lost in the state-cup finals and dropped to last place in the standings). After its fans stoned a referee and destroyed a team bus, league-leading Beersheba Hapoel was ordered to play two games in an empty stadium 30 miles from their home field. The team not only lost an estimated...
...Lawn Tennis Association officials have acknowledged that the U.S. representatives in the Davis Cup match last month against Rumania had been paid $4200 each for playing. The players included Stan Smith, an Army private at the time, who under Army regulations should not have received such funds...
Eventually Papagianis played soccer in the Catholic Youth Conference, then junior cup soccer, and finally three years of high school varsity at Southwest during which he scored 78 goals...