Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brownies, dried cornstalks, okra and an American flag crafted of apples and grapes. Square dancers do-si-do to the bidding of a caller on a stage near by, while curious passers-by gape at a 325-lb. squash lying near Yaple's feet. Above the huge oval ring where the plump, gray-haired woman is sitting hangs a carefully lettered wooden sign that reads, "Arlene Yaple: for 35 years superintendent of Granges and Big Top displays. Danbury Fair thanks you for the great job you have done...
Hoban's newest book, about a 12-year-old boy named Riddley Walker, is filled with rhymes and stories that have all the unaffected charm and ring of the Frances stories...
...squad had faced the University of Connecticut and lost, 4-2, for its first defeat of the season. Now the Princeton Tigers had arrived in town with their number-four national ranking, and the booters were being asked to pick themselves up by their bootstraps, step into center ring and tame the big cats from New Jersey...
Another is the remarkable flourishing of regional companies in the U.S., which lack the resources to put on, say, Wagner's Ring...
...sort of way. Director Aldrich (The Big Knife, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Hustle) has never been one to linger over subtleties, but he has a good sense of life on the scramble in the less exalted realms of Middle America, and he covers the action in the ring quite brilliantly. One starts to feel one's own tendons screeching as the ladies apply their holds to one another, and the shuddering impact of bodies flung to the canvas registers in the audience's bones. Writer Frohman has concocted a nice bickering relationship between Falk...