Word: goat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Darnielle's performances, like his music, are bitter yet endearing--songs range from unsettling weirdness to striking beauty. For an hour and a half at the Middle East Upstairs Concert Hall, the Mountain Goats put forth much of both, simultaneously soothing and unsettling a rather overeager but courteous audience. Pleasing a crowd that could have convinced unbelievers with a glimpse into the life of a Mountain Goat...
...famous libel case--psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson against the New Yorker's Janet Malcolm--turned in part on whether an interview took place over goat cheese at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., or breakfast at Malcolm's Manhattan home. Details matter, especially when they wound real people. Reich is safe: his meals--lunch, breakfast, whatever--were with public figures. Not so the reader who thought Reich was being true to what happened...
Workmen used traditional methods and materials. "I am proud that the general way we constructed the whole structure is entirely consistent with the practices of 1595," says Peter McCurdy, the meticulous master carpenter who directed the construction project. Still, some compromises had to be made. For example, goat hair had to be used to give body to the plaster because no cow hair of the proper--and authentic--length could be found...
Some of those activities include the Goat Roast--at which students gut and skin a goat in the courtyard--and the Dunster Cafe, in which students perform at an open microphone and sip coffee...
Albright likes to wear the eagle and top hat on her trips abroad as symbols of American power and glory. She most recently wore both when she met Russian President Boris Yeltsin in Moscow in February. The goat is the gift of an admiral at Annapolis, who sent it to her after he read accounts that the brutal Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic had apparently named one of his goats after the then U.N. ambassador. In 1994, when reports circulated in the Iraqi press calling Albright a serpent, she decided to wear the snake pin--in lieu of a name...