Word: pit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medium of prints, the range of things that could be depicted widened to take in all Japan. Katsushika Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji and Ando Hiroshige's Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido are both travelogues and social listings, in which every sort of occupation, from pit sawing to innkeeping, gets its allotted description. This scrutiny of lower-class life would never have held so much interest to an earlier Japan. Manga, images of common life, are the direct ancestors of the modern Japanese comic strip...
...magazine's list of best colleges for black students. Would we be as happy with 28 in U.S. News? Harvard Investments * HMC recoups most of $1.5 billion in summertime losses. Pheeww! That was a close one! Mass. Army-Navy Store * Closing sale means cheap winter boots. Plus, maybe the Pit children will migrate elsewhere to buy their clothes. Work * In the week before break, papers mount up, leaving little time for anything else. Have a nice weekend, everybody...
Babe's new pals are a testy, teasing, but not entirely lovable lot, among them a poodle that owes a lot to Tennessee Williams' damaged females, a pit bull whose lineage might be traced back to The Godfather's family, and a game, crippled mutt that seems to have been inspired by old Lon Chaney roles. In short, they are knowing yet desperate inventions. So is the farcical but flat rescue that Babe and Mrs. Hoggett lead when their friends are impounded by motivelessly malign city authorities. Studio executives ordered last-minute fixes on the film because they found...
...this year. For a week some of the wiliest folks from the world's richest and most powerful companies drop in on a place that specializes in separating fools from their money. Every night the pocket-protector crowd flocks to the gaming tables, and you can see the pit bosses tense up. If ever there was a time to suspect that someone at, say, the roulette table had an odds-calculating supercomputer hidden in his shoe, this...
...Garden Street resident reports that she was assaulted in the Pit area of Harvard Square. The victim claims she was assaulted by two men in their 20s who used her cane to beat her, scratching her head and eyes...