Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rock, carves an X on it, and offers the man a "proposition." He claims that he can throw the rock in the deepest part of the pond and have his hunting dog retrieve it. The man takes the bet, and the dog comes up with the marked stone. The slicker pays up, muttering about dumb luck...
...Stone Streets clothing manager Jim A. Consoli said yesterday the store has already sold 10 of the red and green ties...
...Stone Streets also sells seasonal musical ties, which sport Christmas logos and play "Dashing Through The Snow" when the wearer presses a small button on the reverse...
...wagons.) Henry VIII - mainly wanted to raise money, but with Oliver Cromwell the vandalism turned ideological. The Roundheads were determined to erase every last trace of the image in English religious life, leaving only the abstract purity of the Word, the uncompromised Logos. Ordinary plunder, which spares wood and stone, became iconoclasm, which in the name of God spares nothing...
Down-home, of course, is a locale that can be found anywhere in the world. Patience Gray, a well-known food writer in England, tells us, "In the last 20 years I have shared the fortunes of a stone carver . . . Marble determined where, how and among whom we lived; always in primitive conditions." Thus did they feast and fast in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia. Honey from a Weed (Harper & Row; 374 pages; $25) is a rich and idiosyncratic ramble through those festivals and harvests, and it makes perhaps the most enticing book of the year. There are detailed...