Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin visited the occupied West Bank last week, he was taken to task by a local Palestinian Arab. "If the (Jewish) settlers start beating our boys, Israeli soldiers watch and do nothing," complained Abdullah Sa'afin, 24. "But if one of our boys throws a stone, we get live bullets directed at the chests of our children...
Evidence of the Hiss Joke as early as the Stone Age has been unearthed by acheologists. Apparently, Cro-Magnon lecturers would talk about buffalo hides or something, and if they ever mentioned our rival species, which at the time was the emu I believe, all the little Cro-Magnons would hiss and then laugh long and hard into the starry night...
SCENE: Two young literati meet in the subterrain of Adams House. One guy is finely garbed in the prevailing Europrep mode and carries a neatly pressed knapsack. The Other guy is stone washed, unwashed and sports a shoulder bag. As they are seniors, the exchange quickly comes around to what they are going to do with their lives...
...raised loft that stood where the trains once came in and out, was a grimy white gleam: the spectral plaster of Rodin's Gates of Hell. In a side gallery, a visitor furtively ran his finger over the marble nipple of a luscious demimondaine writhing naked among stone roses, once the sensation of the salon of 1847, whose model had been apostrophized by Baudelaire...
...view as one enters is the avenue, plunging down the main axis and flanked on either side by raised terraces clad in squares of soft, tan-gray Burgundian limestone. The avenue is for monumental sculpture (some very monumental indeed, like the huge stone original of Carpeaux's La Danse, a copy of which decorates the facade of the Paris Opera). It finishes in a pair of windowless double-cube towers, containing smaller galleries, set against the glass end wall. Inside the terraces, left and right, are enclosed galleries. On top of these are two smaller "streets" for sculpture...