Word: scotia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson improved its overall record to 2-1. Earlier in the week, Harvard lost to Brown, 9-6, and trounced King's College (Canada), 55-6. BU, which blanked a team from Novia Scotia, 50-0, fell...
...year-old Frankenthaler painted it after a trip to Nova Scotia, whose coast is plainly visible in it: the pine-forested mountains and humpy boulders, the dramatic horizontal blue. It was made flat on the floor, like a Pollock, and records the influence of Cezanne's watercolors, as well as abstract expressionist painters whom Frankenthaler had studied -- in particular, Arshile Gorky, whose looping organic line is reflected in her sketchy charcoal underdrawing. For all its size, it is an agreeably spontaneous image (and was painted in one day), pale and subtle, with a surprising snap to its trails and vaporous...
...MacNeil's first nonbaby words were "gin fizz" -- the name of a teddy bear. He recalls being amazed, on a rare trip aboard his father's corvette, that sailing terms derived from Viking days (coxswain, starboard) still have a defining role in modern navies. MacNeil's memories of Nova Scotia have what D.H. Lawrence called a "spirit of place." In the book's best pages, one can almost whiff the salty tang of fog descending on proud, poky Halifax as winter comes...
Their 18th century exodus from Nova Scotia was immortalized in the overwrought poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Now their cuisine has become democratized into a culinary cliche as even fast-food restaurants offer ersatz renditions of jambalaya and gumbo. Yes, the Cajuns have shouldered their share of suffering. But are these injustices enough to transform the 250,000 descendants of the original Acadian settlers in Louisiana into a minority group eligible for state affirmative-action programs designed for blacks...
...just in case you were planning to wait it out and see what the great Elmore Silk is really like, don't bother; he's a bearded bald guy who lives in Nova Scotia, looks like a truck driver, and like almost everyone else, rips Julius...