Word: pelt
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...certainly is unfit to wear a skirt." Geraldine Ferraro apostrophizes, "Roddy Piper, why don't you come out and fight like a man?" Meanwhile, each month at the Garden, 20,000 souls who wouldn't be caught dead at a Jane Fonda Workout congregate to scream obscenities and pelt the wrestlers with hot dogs and ice cubes. For the few hours they spend together in a wrestling arena, the Perrier Set and the Boilermaker Brigade have something in common: synthetic blood lust...
...marvel of detached observation. In straightforwardness and dignity, unblemished by caricature, the heads of the animal's two Indian handlers rank with Rubens' famous studies of an African black. The evocation of substance, from the hair of the cheetah-done in a rippling amber pelt of short directional strokes interspersed with broader whiskery featherings-to the play of light on the white turbans and dhotis, is breathtaking...
...retired appeals-court judge reacted defensively. Said she, struggling to fight back tears: "Because I can face myself and in all conscience say that whatever I have placed in my report is what I believe in, I could hardly care whether you people who are booing out there should pelt me with tomatoes or slander me. If my best does not satisfy you, I am sorry...
...Pelt's holdout was expensive, costing him about $100,000 in fines and missed paydays from his $ 240,000 annual salary...
...wanted to somehow accommodate a guy who wasn't totally excited about being here," said Minnesota Coach Les Stockel. "I'm happy for Brad Van Pelt. He's given a lot to the NFL, he's played 11 years and felt they really dumped...