Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coup in August 1991, the people of Leningrad voted to call their city St. Petersburg once more. When Brodsky, who had been exiled from the city in 1964, was asked about the news, he smiled and said, "Better to have named it for a saint than a devil...
...grabs. He has become abstract, ahistorical, postmodern, no longer a man in and of his time but a freeloading concept, a part of the available stock of cultural symbols, an image that can be borrowed, used, distorted, reinvented to fit many different purposes, and to the devil with historicity or truth...
Talk about a New Jersey Devil's fan. This site, authored by Michael R. Volonnino '01, who is a Crimson editor, has it all. A well-designed and easy-to-use site with everything you ever wanted to know about the New Jersey Devils but were afraid to ask. A photo gallery, video clips, editorials and box scores. Complete and frequent updates keep the information fresh and the news interesting. (Of course, if you aren't a Devil's fan you'll have to look elsewhere...
...names of the new franchises themselves that really cheapen the national pastime. The Diamondbacks and Devil Rays just don't deserve to be in the same box scores as the Yankees or the Red Sox. True, the teams followed an animal-name tradition that has served the game well. After all, what would Detroit be without its Tigers or Chicago without its Cubs...
What is a devil ray? We at Dartboard aren't quite sure, but the name reminds us of a New Jersey hockey player submerged somewhere in the New England Aquarium. They may be lovely fish, if they exist, but do we need to hear about them every night for six months on Sportscenter...