Word: tins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such is the scenario proposed by Professor Marinatos, the autocratic old genius of Greek archaeology, who has spent the past four summers excavating the rich Minoan town that he discovered on Santorini. The site of his dig is shrouded in rosy dust, shaded by tin-roof sheds, and shielded by high fences. Situated on the southern horn of the main island in a spot sheltered from the sometimes blistering north wind, the site straddles a deep, dry gully. Marinates began his dig by tunneling through the pumice from the gully bed. "We hit the bull's-eye right away...
Gordon used his size advantage and harder shot to great advantage against Charlie Jacobs. After losing the first game. 15-11, the Penn senior started aiming for the top of the tin, and the odds ran against him. Gordon took two close victories. 16-14, 16-14, in the second and third games...
McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Little Murders are two flawed but worthy American films. The first evokes a time when a man could win on style alone--the American Dream at its most basic. A tin-horn gambler and a golden-haired whore play out a laconic male, smart-bitch female romance in the 1890's Northwest. The portrayal is vivid, the material trite. Little Murders is a child's garden of negations. It plays on TV family stereotypes until their insular evils are revealed--and set in the context of a stupidly monied America. It's a rare, original...
They live along the Motoyasu-gawa, or River of Eternal Calm, which flows through the now prosperous city of Hiroshima. The river is lined with their tin and wooden shacks crowded together in a sewerless shantytown. After years as outcasts, they are bitter. They feel disinherited by their own government...
...victory is probably fleeting, Princeton, Brown, and Dartmouth all had their revolutions against ROTC too. But now, sensing that the coast is clear, the men who run these universities are openly considering inviting the military back on campus. Given the quiet that reigns at Harvard, it seems likely that tin soldiers with toy rifles will be marching here again quite soon...