Word: shovelful
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...read, outright terror ... bold and brilliant. Emilio A. Schlabitz Culver City, California, U.S. As I looked at the photos over a cup of gourmet coffee, I thought I should never again complain about having to wait in line an extra minute or two or having to shovel the walkway after a snowstorm or gripe when a store is out of my favorite item. The next time I get upset over trivial, everyday things, I should step back and look at the big picture. Jeffrey N. Achber Laconia, New Hampshire, U.S. Your editors enhanced the nation's misery index in smashing...
...looked at the photos, I thought I should never again complain about having to wait in line an extra minute or two or having to shovel a snowy walkway or gripe when a store is out of my favorite item. The next time I get upset over trivial everyday things, I should step back and look at the big picture. JEFFREY N. ACHBER Laconia...
...yard run in the second.But Cornell (3-4. 1-3) refused to go quietly. Free safety Kevin Rex sacked Terrell back at the Princeton two-yard line, forcing a punt that allowed the Big Red to take possession on the home teams 46-yard line.A 15-yard shovel pass from Ryan Kuhn to Luke Siwula paved the way to a 46-yard field goal by A.J. Weitsman, getting Cornell on the scoreboard.The Big Red immediately regained possession with an onside kick and scored on a 39-yard field goal from Weitsman.Weitsman added a fourth-quarter field goal to bring...
...Duchamp, fellow Dadaist Breton called them "manufactured objects promoted to the dignity of objets d'art by means of the artist's choice." These avant-garde icons, complete rejections of the traditional hierarchy that put painting as the most important art form, are all on show: the snow shovel (In Advance of the Broken Arm), the urinal (Fountain), the Bicycle Wheel, the Hat Rack and the bearded reproduction of the Mona Lisa (L.H.O.O.Q., which is a racy double entendre in French). How did Duchamp choose his objects? On "visual indifference," he once said, "as well as a total absence...
...over the devastated parish, families are trying to decide whether to stay or move on. "At first, people think they're going to fix their homes," says councilwoman Judy Hoffmeister, shaking her head as she watches a friend, Calvin Melerine, 66, shovel mud from his two-story home and ditch one piece of furniture after another. "They come in with U-Hauls, and they're lucky if they leave with a garbage bag full," she says. At her house around the block, Hoffmeister plans to rescue some bronzed baby shoes, but she turns away in tears at the door after...