Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high" culture. Paik, who was to move to New York in 1964, would play a piano and then topple it over onstage; he would cut a pianist's shirttails to shreds with scissors, or stage a little musical "event" by dragging a violin along the sidewalk on a string, like a scraped and protesting pet. A cellist, Charlotte Moorman, would appear for Paik at a concert and play her instrument with tiny TV sets rigged over her breasts; or, to the scandal and amusement of the New York art world in 1967, she would perform topless...
Rutgers out-thought and out-bustled Harvard Saturday. It scored the first goal of the game, sealed the Crimson offense with a tight four minutes into the second half with the last in a string of five unanswered goals...
...Lampoon nine's cackles of glee quickly gave way to a dull gloom as a long string of goose eggs went up on the big scoreboard. The heroic Crimeds chortled as the game turned into a joke, far better than any that have appeared in the Lampoon in recent memory...
Shoelaces are among the least sung-about parts of any wardrobe. Most people hardly notice them. But now style has claimed even these pedestrian pieces of string. Fancy laces imprinted with rainbows, hearts, stars and whole menageries are turning sneakers and jogging shoes into snazzy footwear...
...years; apparently of a heart attack; in Newark, Ohio. A former chairman of the American Conservative Union, he sometimes let his fierce rhetoric overshadow his personal charm. In 1972 he challenged President Nixon in four Republican primaries but never got more than 10% of the vote. After a string of victories in his district, Ashbrook was seeking his party's nomination for the Senate seat held by Democrat Howard Metzenbaum...