Word: hellos
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...ballads, in her children dancing between urine and violets, in her singing to us between the sleeping and the waking. And as she entered into our 21st century bloodstream, paddling a river of risks, she became the color of bells, set sail on the wind and sailed home. Said hello to our own goodbyes...
...High is decked out in the traditional pink dress and golden stole of ancient Rome. She bursts into a third-grade classroom and greets her students: "Salvete, omnes!" (Hello, everyone!) The kids respond in kind, and soon they are studying derivatives. "How many people are in a duet?" High asks. All the kids know the answer, and when she asks how they know, a boy responds, "Because duo is 'two' in Latin." High replies, "Plaudite!" and the 14 kids erupt in applause. They learn the Latin root later, or side, and construct such English words as bilateral and quadrilateral. "Latin...
...Elise and the Ride of the Valkyries. With the C-Guard secreted in my briefcase, I would lie in wait for some Valkyrie-riding nitwit to make my day. Just as my unsuspecting victim's phone trilled, say, the Mexican Hat Dance, I'd jam down the button. "Hello?" he'd bleat pathetically. "Hello? Hello? Hello...
...high is decked out in the traditional pink dress and golden stole of ancient Rome. She bursts into a third-grade classroom and greets her students: "Salvete, omnes!" (Hello, everyone!) The kids respond in kind, and soon they are studying derivatives. "How many people are in a duet?" High asks. All the kids know the answer, and when she asks how they know, a boy responds, "Because duo is 'two' in Latin." High replies, "Plaudite!" and the 14 kids erupt in applause. They learn the Latin root later, or side, and construct such English words as bilateral and quadrilateral. "Latin...
...historian Paul Tucker, squinting wishfully against the sun. The University of Massachusetts professor is shadowed by an I-beam mass of welded steel that looms 55' tall above a campus soccer field. The construction, a piece by sculptor Mark diSuvero, is entitled "Huru," a word that means both hello and good-bye in an aboriginal Australian language. Appropriately situated to greet incomers from University Drive, "Huru" was the first piece of artwork in Arts on the Point, the public sculpture park at UMass Boston and a gargantuan contemporary art project that arguably borders a renaissance...