Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quit the varsity ice-hockey team. He organized a hockey team where you had to have a beard to play. He challenged Rhode Island School of Design to a game, and the teams skated to the middle of the hockey rink carrying their jerseys. They made a big pile up there, then chose up sides. That was beautiful. These were friendly, cheerful people and they were doing amusing things. Their goal was to delight themselves, not to defeat each other...
Armies are machines designed by and large for human destruction, but they are also generators of huge piles of junk. Even in peacetime, military decisions to scrap costly and complicated systems constantly add more litter to the pile. As a result of 30 years of hot and cold wars, the U.S. Department of Defense has become cumulatively-and with a sense of considerable embarrassment-far and away the nation's biggest litterbug...
Coming at the end of The Trial of the Catonsville Nine is a film-clip of nine men and women (among them Fathers Daniel and Philip Berrigan) burning a pile of draft files. It works as a clincher, a final reminder that all the questions and speeches and arguments that have been spoken on stage in the previous hour and a half are quite real, quite serious. The documentary film of the real Catonsville Nine in action fits in perfectly well at the end of this play that recreates their trial. But it's hardly necessary, because Trial...
...companies like Lance Industries of South Windsor, Conn., will convert an ordinary van into a rolling mansion. Included in the more expensive packages: frost-free refrigerators, air conditioning, screened windows, heavily padded bunks, elaborately contrived sinks and gas stoves-as well as deep pile carpeting and costly wall paneling...
Clicking Heels. Throughout the visit, Banda displayed the same amiable zest. "Stop! Stop!" he shouted once, bringing his motorcade to such an abrupt halt that a member of his delegation was slightly injured in the pile-up (and was treated in a "whites-only" hospital). Undeterred, Banda threw his arms around two white children, shouting "I love you, I love...