Word: shark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this semester, PSLM members have stacked trash bags in front of the John Harvard statue, smacked a "Harvard" shark piata and stormed the Holyoke Center office of Kim A. Roberts, Harvard's director of labor and human relations...
...opera), each show is an apocalyptic circus of startling imagination. Everything is designed to be an illusion--to take you in one direction and then make you refigure (the best example I can think of in "O" has a clown drifting on a raft in an ocean; a shark fin begins to swim around him and he panics; he suddenly calms down, picks up a fishing pole and hooks the fin, pulling it up to reveal a crescent moon which he gleefully hangs in the sky). It's also a decidedly French experience--it's incomparable to anything that...
Consider too the sharks: apex predators, lords of the food chain, inspiration for scary stories. A few years ago, I dived off the coast of Costa Rica in a marine preserve where, supposedly, all life was protected. Every day, looking down, I saw the sea bottom carpeted with the corpses of whitetip reef sharks, grotesquely stripped of their fins by poachers who had slashed them off to sell to the soup markets of Asia and had cast the living animals back into the sea to die. Around the world, the numbers of some shark species have declined as much...
...students and janitors led chants outside Holyoke, LaBella rode the elevator up to the seventh-floor offices of the Harvard labor relations department to deliver the subpoena and the battered shark...
...then presented the paper and the pinyata to a room of startled secretaries. As he quickly walked out, he deposited the shark on top of a row of file cabinets...