Word: helmets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commentary. Watching a '50s industrial film promoting General Motors cars in a gleaming world-of-tomorrow landscape, Servo (he's the red gumball machine with Slinky arms) intones, "Future not available in Africa, India, or Central or South America." Listen to Crow (the gold robot constructed of a lacrosse helmet, a split bowling pin and some Tupperware sections) explain the Hercules sex-and-pecs epics of the late '50s: they stem from "European indignation toward postwar conservatism and sexual repression, which translates onto the screen into big sweaty guys pushin' girls around." Or Mike, on the chorus line of prancing...
...Bison have the same helmet logo as the Buffalo Bills did when O.J. Simpson played for them...Bucknell University has 3,400 students...Maranzana is in his sixth season with the team (21-32)...Harvard leads the series with Bucknell...
Ferrara came away with the most honors. He received what is called the "triple-crown" of regional weekly football honors--Offensive Player of the Week by the Ivy League and the ECAC, and the Gold Helmet Award as the top offensive player in New England. In addition, Ferrara was named Harvard Athlete of the Week...
...greatest casualty is soprano Deborah Polaski, playing Brunnhilde, especially in Die Walkure. Tall, handsome, heroic in gesture and carriage, she should make an ideal goddess. But with her bulky breastplate and helmet and huge skirt, she looks like the typical porky Wagnerian. The Rhinemaidens are decked out in biker gear, the dwarf Alberich wears one bright green sneaker. A reference to the Green movement? Who knows...
Moche pottery often depicted scenes of naked captives being sacrificed by having their throat cut. An imposing figure with an enormous crescent-shaped ornament on his conical helmet and large discs in his ears is ever present. From a goblet he drinks the blood of murdered prisoners. Scholars had speculated that these were mythical representations, but imposing regalia and ornaments placed around the 1,700-year-old corpse of the Sipan Lord and found in one of the other tombs gave the ceremonial slayings a grisly new meaning. From his attire, he was recognized as the Warrior Priest...