Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What Rocks!" the Hoya fans shriek, "What Rocks!" This is the literal translation of the school's motto, "Hoya Saxa." The people in Henle 20 with the Harvard student didn't shriek that, or much of anything, until the second half of Saturday's game. What did it was an inbound pass by Gene Smith, accompanied by a grim and an unmistaka- ble nationally televised wink right into the cumeras...
...Irving's prose has a subtle ability to suspend reality and carry the reader smoothly along from one fabuluously bizarre episode to another: But seen on a 15 foot screen these same fabulous events have all the subtlety and appeal of Bozo the clown. For example, the movie's motto "Keep passing the open windows" (i.e. don't jump out) somehow sounds much less embarrassing and trite when you read it in the privacy of your own home than when you hear it blasted through Dolby stereo sound speakers every 10 minutes...
...this hairdresser so successful? Sullivan believes that her motto, "fashion dictates hair," keeps her "ahead of the pack...
...SoHo. So there," the longtime motto of many Quad residents was laid to rest yesterday when South House was renamed Cabot House...
...surely as it does a Matisse: so with Moroni's extraordinary Portrait of Gian Gerolamo Grumelli. The picture has its allegorical furniture. The ivy clinging to the ruin suggests clan loyalty, the broken statue (whose foot remains in the niche) symbolizes the passage of time, and the motto on the bas-relief, "Better the follower than the forerunner," is a manifesto of conservatism. Yet what counts visually is the brocaded red figure, glowing with arrested vitality against the gray ground of the past. Moroni did not overplay the tension between this expansive youthful red and the cool stasis...