Word: spider
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thursday, Larry Friedman leads off a new set of faces at The Back Room at The Idler, located at 123 Mt. Auburn St. Friedman sings and plays contemporary acoustic guitar music. Friday and Saturday nights, Spider John Koerner an old friend to the Idler crowd, returns. Koerner, a seasoned performer, plays excellent acoustic guitar in a straightforward, upbeat style and puts on an enjoyable show. Sunday, the Idler presents Elliot and Rosenthal. (No, they are not a '20's murder trial, but aside from that, you're on your own.) Tuesday night, Paul Orsillo sings and plays guitar...
From her retreat on the edge of Washington State's Puget Sound-"one room, one enormous window, one cat, one spider, and one person"-Dillard gazes out at nature and sees beyond the molecular realities ("Each thing in the world is moving, cell by cell") and even beyond Emerson's transcendental glorification to mull a final unknown: "Did Christ descend once and for all to no purpose, in a kind of divine and kenotic suicide, or ascend once and for all, pulling his cross up after him like a rope ladder home...
Mengele is an active member of a surviving network of former Nazi bigwigs known as Die Spinne (The Spider). In addition to being a mutual protection society, this organization specializes in extortion and smuggling in South America. Mengele is also working on a book that supposedly will justify his experiments as valid scientific undertakings...
...dark-stained dining table where the 11 inhabitants eat the common supper they take turns cooking. A brown-and-white cat watched us steadily from the sill of a bay window. "It adopted us," Luscomb says, watching the cat swish its tail and survey a spider crawling on the outside of the glass...
...They were all criminals with records of violence, and Ray normally kept apart from such convicts. Although Ray was thought to have been the first man up the ladder, prison officials believed that the leader of the group might have been Larry Hacker, 32, a man with a spider tatooed on his arm who was serving a sentence of 28 years for robbery with a deadly weapon...