Word: skein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...functionaries, vibrant, stinging music. But for the most part, Truffaut is, happily, himself. Even Hitchcock could not stretch so many individual scenes to the limit-and still give them the tensile strength of drop-forged steel. Nor has he the almost Proustian ability to recapture the past in a skein of memories and desires. In its avoidance of a major theme, The Bride Wore Black opts for the minor genre of suspense; but within those bounds it is very nearly a masterpiece...
...Wiley's visual puns are lampoons or deal with art alone. A square of latticed Masonite strips frames a ball wrapped in black electrician's tape from which dangles a tangled skein of white string. It bears a tag saying, "This piece was begun on April 4, 8 a.m. and completed April 4, 7 p.m.," because Wiley was making it on the day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot. Recalls the artist: "I didn't think of the black and white as racial, but when I heard about King being shot, it suddenly seemed relevant...
...Crimson stickmen, who have built a three-game victory skein in the last two weeks, will face a mediocre Eli contingent. On scores with common opponents, the game would have to be rated even, a "pick-em" proposition...
...tennis team will be here all week-end, playing Cornell today and Army Saturday. In action away the lacrosse team will try to break its Ivy loss skein at Dartmouth, and the lightweight crew will row against Princeton and Yale at New Haven for the Goldthwait...
...ruggers started their win skein by shutting out the Richmond Rugby Club 3-0 April 3. Back John Dickinson got the only score of the match on a long dropkick in the second half...