Word: spillers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...else seemed average about Shields, 18, as the media flocked to cover her college stage debut last week in Princeton University's 95th annual Triangle Club student revue. Revel Without a Pause features the comely coed in five short skits, including a musical number with a tune called Spiller, a sendup of Michael Jackson's Thriller. Who knows, with luck and hard work Shields may eventually get the lead in a Princeton drama-club production. How about an adaptation of The Blue Lagoon...
...Middle Ages, the ancient sanctity of salt slid toward superstition. The spilling of salt was considered ominous, a portent of doom. (In Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Last Supper, the scowling Judas is shown with an overturned saltcellar in front of him.) After spilling salt, the spiller had to cast a pinch of it over his left shoulder because the left side was thought to be sinister, a place where evil spirits tended to congregate...