Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...function of the avant-garde to afflict the comfortable, to , stick a rude thumb into society's eye? Maybe not. Playwright Robert Coe, who has collaborated with both Glass and Anderson, has noted that the "avant- garde performing arts just don't play by the same rules as a decade ago . . . For the first time in the history of postwar experimental performance, serious artists have ceased to assume an attitude of indifference or superiority to the culture-at-large." Perhaps as a result, popular culture is no longer indifferent to them. Observes Byrne: "In the past, traditional artists didn...
...second flyer was not so lucky. He was captured almost immediately by an Amal militiaman, Rafiq Ibrahim, 19. "I jumped out of the bush and ordered him to stick his hands up," Ibrahim later reported. "He raised only one arm, so I shouted at him and gestured by my M-16 rifle for him to raise his other hand. His right arm was broken." Amal officials, who have quietly aided Israel by harassing Palestinian fighters in southern Lebanon, were at first reluctant to admit to the capture, lest it lead to an Israeli rescue operation. They later said the pilot...
...Princeton has a weak cornerback we might pick on," Connolly said. "But we're going to stick with the same game plan we used against Dartmouth. Our schedule gets tougher and tougher from here on out--we need to get this game under our belts...
...bill would use as its "stick" a system of fines and prison terms against employers who knowingly hire undocumented workers. As a balancing "carrot," those who crossed the border illegally before 1982 and established roots in the United States would be given legal status...
Ironically, it was Grim who set up the UMass penalty stroke when she raised her stick above her shoulders--illegally--to block Christine Kocot's shot off a penalty corner...