Word: graveyard
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...events in the past two weeks have caused the racial tension, Roos said. On February 23, the Dartmouth maintenance crew dismantled a three-week old "South Africa memorial graveyard" snow sculpture, Roos said. He explained that the snow sculpture lay on a main road through the campus and that there were others being dismantled at the same time...
James E. DeFrantz, president of the Afro-American Society, said, "There was some feeling that one of the trustees had ordered the graveyard destroyed." He said that the society had requested a formal apology from the maintenance crew, but had not received...
...thick with talk about which movement (Op, Pop, post-painterly abstraction, arte povera, conceptualism, photorealism) was the latest incarnation of history. In an eerie way, the future seems to have joined the past (as far as painting and sculpture are concerned) in a common elephants' graveyard. So one is left with the individual talent, the single work. Diversity is all; and if this cooling-off has deprived the art world of its former urgency, at least it has the merit of reality. The only people who still feel nostalgic for the days of movements are dealers; the historical handle...
...your uncle a book he could just look at, like The New Yorker 25th Anniversary Album which contains, among other things, lots of funny cartoons. Not only that, but think of the snob appeal this nicely done book will have when it finally comes to the Elephant's graveyard of Christmas book gifts--the coffee table...
...wonder, says Silberman, is that blacks did not explode sooner. Instead, they sublimated their rage with elaborate "toasting sessions" at which they would spin tall tales about underdogs outfoxing their oppressors, or celebrate the likes of "the Great MacDaddy" ("Got a tombstone disposition and a graveyard mind"), who would turn white values on their head by being the "baddest nigger." In the 1960s black militants used such folk heroes as role models; Black Panther Bobby Seale named his son after a famous badman of 19th century ballads named Stagolee, "a bad nigger off the block...