Word: slings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...zeal, Piranesi turned archaeologist. He measured, calculated, chipped off encrustations and mold from fallen columns. He sketched indefatigably, on occasion even having himself suspended in a rope sling to get the vantage point he wanted. In his etchings, Piranesi embellished and sometimes even reconstructed the ancient structures. He gave the ruins themselves infusions of light, spared no climbing vine or sprouting bush. He often filled his foregrounds with bustling groups of peddlers, fish wives and beggars, whose vitality contrasts with the crumbling architecture...
...sidelined for the season with knee tendonitis... Junior varsity stalwart Geoff Brooks also gone after trading oars for thespian gear in Hasty Pudding Show... The last time Harvard rowed on the Harlem River (1975), a Crimson rower was hit in the head with a rock from a spectator's sling-shot and was rushed to the hospital. Pickering had to race both J.V. and varsity that afternoon on a river he says is filled with "tires, nail-boards and bodies"... The race will be going with the tide-flow, which could make for swift times and could be a major...
John Cassavetes' villain, whose crippled arm rests in a black sling, rarely raises his voice, and what recent villains have had this much sepulchral charm? His end morever, can only be compared to the finale of the 1812 Overture, and provides the one great, cathartic moment in the film...
Quincy allowed the lethargic Leverett gridders only one first down the entire afternoon, but couldn't unravel its own punchless offense in the turnover-marred debacle. Don Bodener earned the plaudits of the Quincy faithful, intercepting a key Leverett sling while also directing Q-House's offensive traffic...
...cajolery. Joyce was so eager to sell his masterpiece in the U.S. that, in his haste to make the appointment, he was run over by a taxicab. When Cerf met him, he was "sitting with a bandage around his head, a patch over his eye, his arm in a sling and his foot all bound up and stretched out on a chair...