Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Balck and White will be trying its third stroke in as many races and for the second time will be experimenting with a revamped like-up as Radcliffe Coach Lisa Stone pursues the elusive best boat...
...Monchengladbach, West Germany. The Pritzker ostensibly honors a lifetime of work, but surely it is Monchengladbach that got the prize for Hollein. The three-year-old hillside museum is like a tiny town within a town, an agglomeration of distinct but compatible structures, a labyrinth set on its own stone Platz. Undula- ting red brick terraces hug the slope, relaxed and vaguely mock-ancient, not abrasive Disneyland replicas. As ever, Hollein succeeds in pleasing with the highly particular small space, the odd cutout corner or voluptuous semicircular marble stair. Monchengladbach has the virtuoso exuberance of a big, ambitious first novel...
...seeking similar treasures. Had the Bedouins probed deeper into the cave floor, their search might have been rewarded. In 1983 Archaeologists David Alon of the Israeli Department of Antiquities and Museums and Ofer Bar-Yosef of Hebrew University, digging 3 ft. down, unearthed a cache of spectacular Neolithic (late Stone Age) artifacts about 9,000 years...
...painted mask ever found: a life-size limestone human face decorated with bands of red and green. Also dug from the cave: basket and box fragments made of woven rushes waterproofed with asphalt, delicate thumbnail- size human heads and a rodent figurine, carved wood and bone tools, clay, stone and wooden beads and a human skull adorned with asphalt. Perhaps most remarkable are the fabrics, which are woven in eleven intricate designs, some resembling knotted macrame, others fine mesh...
...first child; in Los Angeles. Two days earlier, Long's costar and fellow Cheers waitress, Rhea Perlman, 36, also gave birth in New York City to a daughter, the second child for her and Actor Husband Danny DeVito, 40, star of TV's rerunning Taxi and films (Romancing the Stone). Perlman's character, Carla, became pregnant for this TV season, but Long's Diane, hidden by camera angles...