Word: poked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first became aware of faculty dissatisfaction with ART last fall during the run of Andrei Belgrader's farcical production of As You Like It. I had reviewed the show favorably--it seemed to poke fun at pastoral conventions no one today can stomach, in the same spirit Shakespeare had half-mocked them in his writing. It was a wild show, full of excesses, including a Hymen with four breasts and phalluses for hair, but it brought As You Like It to life on stage more fully than more cautious productions...
Aristotle, says Terres, unaware of migration, thought birds hibernated in winter, while Ice landers believed that the whooper swan, after nesting, flew off to the moon. Closer at hand, songbirds poke crushed ants, rich in formic acid, into their coats to remove para sites; the common blue jay is obeyed by fleeing deer when he pipes his warnings; and the red-eyed vireo can give 22,000 encores a day of his song...
...understand why other schools need to poke fun at a school of education even though we're part of the same community." Deal says, adding that "I feel good about what I do, and it's every bit as vital and intellectually respectable as things others...
Dartmouth's senior goaltender Jim Jankowski, a caddy for superhero Bob Gaudet for most of his career, played in the finale and turned away 21 shots. The two he didn't get, a three-on-one poke by Jim Turner and a breakaway tally by Shayne Kukulowicz, ended the scoring in what has been a bittersweet campaign for the Crimson...
Several pages later, MacShane quotes O'Hara again: "Although I may often have felt like belting a woman, I have never actually taken a poke at one except in anger...