Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trick that the Pentagon's Thomas K. Jones has proposed for personal survival in the event of a nuclear war calls for true ingenuity. How does a person crawl into a hole, cover the hole with a couple of doors and then pile three feet of dirt on top of them...
...problem is reversed. His paintings-of drowning swimmers and divers (like A Fish on the Back of the Adriatic Sea , 1980), heroes tormented by doppelgangers and harsh schematic landscapes-are elaborately ill-painted in order to support the fiction of terminal earnestness. This, of course, is the main trick in the repertory of neo-expressionist effects, and Cucchi does it over and over again. The best of his paintings here, The Mad Painter, 1981-82, seems to parody this condition; the rest simply deploy their accepted rhetoric of crudity as vitality. Artists of Cucchi's persuasion, wild pets...
...minutes into the game. Princeton senior Rip Wilson bounced a shot off a defender's foot and past Harvard goalie Tim Pendergast. A minute and a half later, teammate Gerry Bocon connected on the first corner of his hat trick from in close Four minutes after that, Steve Delligatti fired an implausible shot from 20 yards with Rob Sherlock directly fronting him, but he made the score to give Princeton a 3-0 lead, and boom, boom, boom. Harvard lost its wind, never to recover...
According to the program notes--perhaps the most pretentious in House theatre history--it all means somethings. In case the K-School Foru posters and South Africa rally handbills which fill the back wall of the stage don't to the trick. Edward Hill and William Sakas, who wrote the, er, script have provided us with a few helpful hints. It seems the show is more than just a demonic medley of Bowie tunes, artfully arranged with costumes and dance. It seems it is also Political. "This show is about the Harvard Committee on Central America and the editorial page...
...NOTEBOOK--The Crimson offense pounded the Northeastern goal with 42 shots Francesca Den Hartog notched a hat trick in the game, her fourth three-goal performance of the year...