Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solipsism reaches hysteria at the Biennale de Paris, which proclaims itself the "manifestation of the young artists," meaning those under 35. The preoccupation this year was style, for its own sake. Noted in a random walk: a Parisian who signs himself Sibaja has sculpted two prizefighters out of red ice who bleed slowly into buckets under their boxing ring while a tape recorder plays crowd screams. They take a week to die. Minimal sculpture everywhere, reaching even into the Portuguese delegation. Pushbutton and wind-up sculptures break down in a matter of hours. Slides flicker against every flat surface until...
...that, in a word, has been Harvard's problem this winter. Defensive mistakes gave New Hampshire all three of its goals two weeks ago. two of them on sloppy clearing passes. In the Brown loss. the defense was caught up-ice much too often, and a Bruin team that never should have beaten Harvard did so. 4-3. And two nights ago on a frustrating evening that saw Boston College score four times within ten minutes of the third period, it was the same thing all over again...
...water that was so stable it boiled only at about 1,000°F., or five times the boiling temperature of natural water. It did not evaporate. It did not freeze-though at -40°F., with little or no expansion, it hardened into a glassy substance quite unlike ice...
...Harvard to within a goal, and at 18:44, Mellor was sent off for tripping DeMichele on a breakaway. Harvard had a man advantage, which soon became doubled when Durno was pulled in favor of a sixth skater with a minute remaining. But the Crimson substitute jumped onto the ice before Durno had fully entered the bench, and the ensuing penally nullified the Harvard advantage...
...with a slap on the back and a big Irish grin, Kelley will send his squad rumbling onto the ice at McHugh Forum, eager to knock the Crimson into the cheap seats...