Word: dung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brief but close encounter. Gradually the room fills with journalists who gamble, politicians who steal, gangsters who peddle influence, and an editor who employs leg breakers to circulate his paper. This is a town festering with corruption, and everyone aspires only to scrabble to the top of the dung heap. Life is cheap. When a murderer escapes from the court building's death row, guards outside spray the facade with bullets so wantonly that everyone dives for the floor. When a prostitute who has befriended the murderer finds herself surrounded by journalists threatening bodily harm to make her reveal...
...Jerusalem scarcely one day earlier. Some 300 young recruits of the army's Givati Brigade had just been sworn in at Judaism's holiest site, the Western Wall, also known as the Wailing Wall, in the Old City. As the ceremony ended, the soldiers marched through the nearby Dung Gate, one of the eight portals of the walled city, to a parking lot where they were to board buses for the trip back to the barracks. At about 8:15 p.m., two assailants quietly got out of a car and, from a ramp overlooking the parking lot, hurled two hand...
...junk, from cardboard, tin and pine boards (the stuff of Picasso's and Laurens's cubist constructions) to the wire and celluloid favored by constructivists, the steel plates and boiler ends forged by Smith, and so on down to rocks, twigs, burlap, twine or even the artist's own dung, which, canned and labeled by the Italian Piero Manzoni in 1961, provided a nastily prophetic comment on fetishism in late modern art. On its road away from statuary, sculpture gained a new depth of cultural resonance, a flexibility of invention, an access to the inner self, a power of aggression...
...butts in front of the imitation- Aztec Mexican pavilion. (Average "life-span" of a piece of street trash before being removed: 4 min.) During the Magic Kingdom's afternoon parade of Disney characters, a sanitation man in old-fashioned vest and black pants materializes to scoop up some horse dung. When the crowd cheers him, he doffs his hat and salutes...
Since the days when the roster of any Harvard freshman class looked like a who's who of former prep school oarsmen, Harvard has been using other universities as its private academic farm system. When a new yak dung expert was needed, Harvard raised its glance from its teacup and and cast a look to the horizon, indulgently regarding the faculties of other universities before raiding them for their academic stars. Often enough those bush-league sluggers were only too happy to escape Madison, or Berkeley, or Chicago--places where nice tweeds were hard to find...