Word: twines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deeper level of unfamiliarity. Since the early 15th century, European art has been so much concerned with finite space, with place and solidity rendered through perspective and tone, that we find it hard to grasp the forms of Islamic art−its "arabesques," those complicated embellishments that twine like morning-glories across every surface, an undulant line branching into unimaginably complicated mazes, knots, overlays, repeats and meander patterns. One is faced, not by another decorative style, but by a wholly different notion of space and substance...
...Volunteers have been paced by the torrid shooting of freshman Bernie King--who burned the twine for 42 points in the 30 minutes of action he saw in his varsity debut...
...through trees takes on a new meaning when, in another poem, a man's life is a "skull of red yarn/that unravels as he walks," and in still another poem, "behind you the dream burns the empty nests,/and before you the day with its ball of twine...
While many braided men-as well as women-cajole friends or family into helping them twine their locks, others visit an expanding coterie of cornrowing specialists. Manhattan Corn-Rower Femi Sarah Heggie has plaited the likes of Aretha Franklin, Melvin Van Peebles, Nina Simone and Dick Williams. Brooklyn Plaiter Christine Harper, on the other hand, concentrates on braiding businessmen in their 20s and 30s. "Rugged he-men types are my best customers," she says. The mahatma of Washington corn-rowers is Nat Mathis, better known to friends and customers as Nat the Bush Doctor. Nat began his career with Afros...
Harvard and Penn played a tight first half that ended with the Quakers, on the hot shooting of Hankinson (24 points) Haigler (21 points) and Beecroft (20 points) holding a 46-41 lead. In the first half, Penn tickled the twine at a blistering 60-per cent rate, hitting on 18 of 30 from the field...