Word: peeling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to face it daily, the Leverett painting serves as something to talk about while eating. Leverett resident Amnon A. Bar-Ilan '96 says that he and his friends spent much of last year "making secret conspiracies to do bad things to the painting. Like spray paint it. Or peel the paint off one blob at a time and see if the master noticed...
Although some of the pieces are interesting enough, don't make a special trip to the MFA for this show. The radio commercial tries to make "Grand Illusions" sound intriguing: "There may be only one way to peel a banana, but there are countless ways to paint one." There are many confusing and unthinking ways to hang...
Even Charles' foes acknowledge that he is not a villain, but he seems to have a self-destructive streak. Some of it is just banana-peel comedy. The day of the broadcast he plowed the plane he was piloting off the runway: he misjudged his landing approach. More serious is his capacity for ill-advised self-revelation, which raises the question of whether he is fit to rule. When he claimed he was faithful to Princess Diana until the marriage was "irretrievably broken," he may have opened himself to the charge of lying. The next day Andrew Morton, the author...
President Nixon was fond of British history. So it is fitting to close by paraphrasing the famous comment about Robert Peel written by one of Nixon's favorite historians, Sir Norman Gash. The analogy is overbroad, but the sentiment is entirely accurate: he brought China into the modern world, and his political opponents herded him out of office. As America enters a new and dangerous phase in world affairs, we will miss President Nixon, perhaps now more than ever...
...Jake S. Krielkamp and Alex J.LeVine, both juniors, along with Gian Neffinger'93 and Oliver Strauch '94. The record found itsway across the country; it was received warmly atBU, BC, Princeton, Columbia and even as far awayas Berkeley. Then someone sent a copy to Europe.The music pioneer John Peel, of "Peel Sessions"fame, played it on BBC radio, and suddenly BettyPlease started receiving fan mail from England andScotland. The record then made its way to Germany,where it also met with success...