Word: loree
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...Germany and Russia said they'd give no more. MEANWHILE IN FIJI ... Belated Apology Hoping to lift a suspected curse, inhabitants of the remote mountain village of Navatusila have promised to apologize to descendants of a British Christian missionary whom their forefathers ate 136 years ago. According to village lore, their ancestors devoured all of the Rev. Thomas Baker except his leather boots, which, despite prolonged cooking, proved too tough...
...forever cemented her place in Harvard hockey lore her freshman year in 1999 by scoring the game-winning goal in overtime against New Hampshire in the national championship game...
...from the set of Claire Denis' French film Trouble Every Day (shown at Cannes in 2001) and that Denis was still miffed about the missing member. Her exact quote is missing too, but wags paraphrased it as: "Vincent Gallo stole my penis." The Brown Bunny has already entered movie lore as the worst film ever shown at a major festival. Cannes '03 may achieve a similar distinction. No one could recall a soggier batch of movies in the competition. The lures of the beach, lush weather and gorgeous people were never so seductive. As beautiful as it was outside...
Gitlin acknowledges that the 1960s, through media, music and the lore of the vocal Boomer generation, has been suspended in time as a glittering era of idealism, collaboration and carnival-like counterculture. The fashion and music of the ’60s remain as ubiquitous now as then. The concrete victories of the Civil Rights Movement and the sexual revolution are, in many ways, routinized into our culture, he says...
...match made in mythological-heaven. In Greek lore, Pleiades is a group of seven sisters renowned for their beauty and immortalized by Zeus as a constellation. In the Harvard Bookstore, Pleiades is an obscure literary magazine published by Central Missouri State University. And in the Harvard social milieu, Pleiades is a recently formed quasi-sorority. FM played matchmaker, uniting the social club and the magazine to explore their eponymous obscurity...