Word: spearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...junior record-holder Darlene Beckford will lead freshman Mary-Jeanne Barrett and senior co-captain Mary Herlihy to a possible sweep, and Britisher Paula Newnham--who-ran a strong 9:55 300 in an open meet recently--will spear the change of Linsley and freshman Kathy Goode in the 3000. The 5000, not usually run in dual meets, will feature Harvard junior Wiley McCarthy and Yardling Miriam Keltz...
...girls cock their hands and heads and do not smile. They glow with color, their dark brown skins set off by the deep blues, reds and greens of their sarongs and sashes. They do four dances, starting with a hunting dance in which a small boy brandishes a spear and tries to look ferocious. The coconut dance is the most fun and the most intricate, as the children clap halves of coconuts from hand to hand. They flirt, but do not touch...
...Germans is probably A.R. Penck (born Ralf Winkler), who was on show at the Sonnabend Gallery. An East German emigre to the West, he does mock-archaeological images blown up to "American" size. On a flat ground, flat pictographs: Ariadne holding her thread, Theseus as a stick figure with spear, a Minotaur. This primitivism is meant to suggest a heroic Aegean prehistory, a lost age when sibyls muttered in every cleft, and any scratch or spiral meant something. But Penck's images are mere quotation suffused with graphic charm; they are little more than the husks of myth...
...democracy." In the airport, the traveler is inundated with illuminated signs in Arabic and English that read: NO DEMOCRACY WITHOUT POPULAR CONGRESS. Portraits of Gaddafi are everywhere, in private homes, musty old hotels, on billboards in service stations. Pointedly, there are also anti-American posters depicting Libyans shoving a spear through the head of a bleeding pig clothed in Uncle Sam's red-white-and-blue suit, with doves soaring aloft carrying little Green Books...
...naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen...