Word: pieds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only American, Harry Mathews, has contributed "perverbs"-combined proverbs permuted until the mind is dizzied and the meaning transmogrified: "Every cloud is another man's poison"; "The road to Hell is paved with rolling stones." Poet Jacques Bens writes "irrational sonnets" based on the value of pi carried to the fourth decimal place: 3.1415. The 14 lines are divided into groups containing three, one, four, one and five lines-in that order. Perec's greatest verbalistic missile is a lipogram-a composition that completely omits one letter of the alphabet. There is not a single...
While Suárez listened impassively on the blue leather government bench, Blas Piñar, head of an ultra-right group calling itself Fuerza Nueva (New Force) attacked the reform as a "stupid mask." Another right-wing coalition, the Popular Alliance, threatened that its more than 100 members would abstain from voting unless majority representation replaces the government's proposal that seats in the lower house be allotted by proportional representation. In the end, Alliance leaders and other conservatives were satisfied by a modest technical compromise on voting procedures...
Longest Run in Harvard-Yale game: Two weeks. In 1958 Harvard tackle Marty Lefski ate 497 prunes as part of a Pi Eta Club initiation on the eve of The Game. As a result, Lefski did not play in the classic and didn't make it out of the Dillon Field House bathroom until the beginning of reading period...
...enjoying a bath, recalls David Douglas Duncan, describing his first encounter with Pablo Picasso 20 years ago. Painter and photographer hit it off, and in the years that followed Duncan clicked off some 50,000 photos of the master and his work, and produced three volumes of Pi-cassiana. In celebration of Picasso's 95th birthday on Oct. 25, Duncan has now produced a fourth, titled The Silent Studio (Norton), which focuses on Picasso's art-filled French Riviera villa and on Jacqueline, his wife for a dozen years before his death in 1973. "Living with Picasso...
...Cambridge police officer across from Nini's saw one of Pi Eta's unclads, apprehended him and brought him to the Cambridge police station before releasing him into the custody of Harvard police, Robert G. Mudge, of the Harvard police, said yesterday...