Word: larded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PROJECT was very different then--Vogt calls 1957-1960 "Phase I." The Indians believed that white men would kill them to make lard to oil their machines, and they were so frightened and suspicious that they would run when approached. Vogt recalls that the Americans "were just as frightened as the Indians" and spent much of that first summer building a house for themselves and observing from a distance...
...usual drink in order to encourage the growth of barley." The game was carried to Canada in the mid-1700s by Scottish soldiers who melted cannon balls into 60-lb. "irons" for a frolic on the frozen St. Lawrence. Pioneer farmers ringed hard wood blocks with iron or used lard buckets filled with cement...
Dean Gitter as Jay Gould gives Prince Erie's most extraordinary performance. A quiet nervous deadpan conveys the tension and ruthlessness of Gould, who could "smell a nickel under twenty pounds of lard." Through disciplined underplaying, Gitter is tragic in the steamboat scene, and satanic at the end of the second act where, after the success of the gold crash, he drinks a glass of champagne in spine-chilling slow motion...
...White Sox are probably the only team in baseball that has to weigh in for work; a coach guards the scales and prescribes for excess lard. Stanky maneuvers ballplayers as if they were robots and he owned the patents: he has been known to use as many as three pinch hitters for one turn at bat. In his "gogo" offense, even pitchers steal bases, and a batter who reaches first base is considered to be in scoring position. Against Baltimore last week, Chicago Leftfielder Jimmy Stewart scored from first on a single to leftfield-because the Orioles never imagined...
...Beuys, is also out of the ordinary. A onetime Hitler Youth and World War II Stuka pilot, Beuys has undergone a characteristic postwar metamorphosis to become Düsseldorfs reigning neo-Dada hero. He is celebrated for his Chaplinesque smile, battered Homburg, octopuslike drawings, sculptures made of chocolate and lard, for the splendiferous happenings that he used to stage and, above all, for the fertile chaos of his classrooms. Students in a Beuys class are permitted to build, sculpt or paint literally anything, from kinetic doodads to studies of Beuys himself...