Word: pelts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past 25 years A.P.-After Pollock. His paintings are saturated with the ideas about surface and space that abstract paintings put into currency in America. They have less to do with locating a set of objects in the illusion of a void than with creating a continuous pelt of shapes that fills the surface from edge to edge, top to bottom. With 19th century landscapists like Bierstadt or Corot, one is softly inducted into the illusion. Welliver points out, 'You can really just enter into it and leave. With mine, there is the resistance of the surface...
...Turner scores Harvard's final goal of the night at 8:17 of the third period, and now Eliot suffers the Harvard fans wrath, as tennis balls, beer cans and, that's right, a sieve pelt the Big Red net. The Cornell netminder takes a hike out of the crease, and, since they had been forewarned, the Harvard fans take a trip to the penalty box. The minutes for "roughing", you might say. In any case, the scoreboard shows a two minute penalty on Harvard's number zero, and Crimson defenseman Scott Sangster sits out the penalty, as the referee...
...some Glenn Miller. The guests snake out of the ballroom, through the foyer, to the front door, where fleets of limousines are still depositing the newly arrived. The men emerge crisp in white or black tie; the women are elegant in gowns of every description, occasionally worn under the pelt of some endangered species...
...Crimson did pelt the New Hampshire net with a respectable 25 shots, and few this season have been more spectacular than Mark Fusco's power-play goal with two minutes left in the first period. With Harvard up, 2-1, and Ralph Robinson off for slashing, Fusco took an Alan Litchfield pass in his own zone, crossed center ice and the UNH blueline, and instead of stopping for his usual slapshot from the point, cruised in on Pearson past everybody and flippped the puck into the twines...
...other Ivy action. Princeton, with 385 total yards, smashed Cornell, 37-14. Fullback Larry Van Pelt scrambled for 118 Yards and two touchdowns and snatched a 12-yd. TD aerial from signal-caller Brent Woods to lead the Tiger blitz...