Word: hallooing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...original Russian version, the word is nevezhda, which means "an ignorant person." Krokodilovy slyozy, which translates literally as "tears of the crocodile," derives from a Russian fable similar to the Western tale. Hullabaloo, which harks back at least to the 18th century English wolf-hunting cry of "halloo-baloo," appeared as shumikha, which means "uproar." Hooligan is simply khuligan in Russian, with precisely the same meaning in English...
...turns up nothing that is not representational, nothing whose style or execution departs any considerable distance from the work of Frederic Remington or Charles M. Russell, the great turn-of-the-century cowboy artist. Bill Nebeker's small bronze, Givin' the Boys a Show, is a rousing halloo for Remington and the past, a bucking horse with all four legs stiff and off the ground, and a rider waving his hat high. Lovell's Cooling the Big 50 is a powerful charcoal drawing showing a plainsman pouring water on the barrel of his rifle, which...