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...quadrangle also served as the College pigpen and garbage dump prior to the Kirkland administration. Historical accounts say University Minor was rat-infested and dangerous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof Tries To Enshrine Tree | 10/4/1985 | See Source »

...down where he couldn't stand up, I couldn't stand his suffering, so I called the vet. Then after he was gone I called the boys, and they said if ever a dog deserved a decent burial, this one did. I was gonna take him out to the dump, but then I said we'd just come out here to the old hunting ground. We all loved these hills and hollers, men and dogs. Still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Alabama: a Coon Dog Indeed | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

Especially in the first few weeks of freshman year, our home state plagues us, putting a chill on every budding relationship. Personally, I'd like to dump Garden State toxic waste all over the next person who uses that "What exit?" line on me again...

Author: By Brian W. Kladko | Title: Born in the Garden State | 9/21/1985 | See Source »

...unconscionably pusillanimous approach, the Maryland State Police have started hiding in dump trucks and yellow lawn mowers alongside the highway to catch speeders, according to The Washington Post. The federal government has been putting the heat on Maryland to crack down after a study earlier this year found 76.2 percent of drivers were speeding. That compares to 56 percent nationwide and 44 percent in Massachusetts...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Those Men in (Baby) Blue | 9/21/1985 | See Source »

...sweet irreverence that was entirely Schwitters' own are knotted together as a gift to the future. The idea of the urban poet as a scavenger was by no means new. It had been around since Baudelaire's ragpicker in the 1860s; in 1882 Van Gogh praised the city dump of the Hague as "a real paradise for the artist." But no one, not even Picasso with his cubist collages, did more to expand and discipline this field of imagery than Schwitters. Consequently, there is something persistently grand as well as tenacious, antic and rebellious about this long-overdue show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Urban Poet | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

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