Word: pined
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Amid the meetings, formal banquets and cultural shows (in this case, a demonstration of karate, which originated on Okinawa), every major summit has some moments of inexplicable silliness. This summit's contribution to the genre: the leaders "planting a tree" by each throwing a shovel of dirt on a pine tree that was already planted, and dutifully examining with feigned interest a new high-tech voting machine that Japan's Prime Minister Mori was quite proud...
...police arrested Sharpe at the nearby Pine View Lodge on a fugitive from justice warrant early Sunday morning, flushing him out of his room with pepper spray grenades thrown through his window...
Although she doesn't know what plots are in store for her character, who was last seen two years ago when she left the fictional Pine Valley to deal with an eating disorder, Riegel is ready for anything...
Near the town of Coldwater in Tate County, Miss., where the kudzu hills rise gently from the Delta flatlands in the west, there's a gravel track that runs through stands of scrub oak and pine to reach a dusty clearing: two single-wide trailers, a small vegetable patch, a bluetick hound sleeping in the lee of a faded green Lincoln. Music is in the air--the fierce, hypnotic boogie known as hill-country blues--because this is the headquarters of the North Mississippi Allstars...
...Sanitation," which signals Haacke's incarnation as the king of cut-and-paste, has neither an aesthetic nor a political leg to stand on. The ideas contained in the exhibit are too focused and yet too disparate to evoke any response, anger or otherwise. No doubt it makes one pine for Haacke's kinetic sculptures, such as 1963-65's "Condensation Cube," which leaves the viewer with visions of Yves Klein trapping dampened...