Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hammered copper, hand-thrown pottery, "honest" furniture even when machine-made -- these were the tenets that created the spare yet homey Treasures of the American Arts and Crafts Movement: 1890-1920, handsomely surveyed by Tod M. Volpe and Beth Cathers (Abrams; 206 pages; $49.50). Founded in Britain by John Ruskin and William Morris as an antidote to the shoddy wares of the Industrial Revolution, the movement was brought to the U.S. by Gustav Stickley. Its principles have blurred, but the work produced by its philosopher-practitio ners endures. Example: the incised birds that flit across the flowers on Mary Frances...
Give up the hunt, Harvard, the Wildcats said. Go fishing instead. The UNH fans donated the first catch--a dead bass thrown on the ice after the goal...
Eason started in place of Doug Flutie, who was healthy. But Tampa Bay had the NFL's fifth-best run defense and Flutie had thrown poorly and infrequently even though the Patriots were 6-3 in the last nine games with him at quarterback...
...tissues, the carriers get progressively smaller, denser and proportionately more cholesterol-rich, ultimately becoming particles of LDL. The LDLs are then pulled out of the bloodstream by special protein receptors on the surface of cells. "These receptors reach out and grab cholesterol like a first baseman catching a ball thrown by a shortstop," says Dr. Michael Brown of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, who, with his colleague Dr. Joseph Goldstein, won a Nobel Prize in 1985 for discovering LDL receptors. What happens to excess LDLs that are not taken up by cells? Under normal conditions, these are swept...
...Darth Vaderesque Christina Kiely as her darker counter-part are permanent fixtures to the play. When they don't have any lines they simply stand there spreading their good or bad karma. It's quite a New Age-like concept--one can almost feel all that cosmic energy being thrown about...