Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leading 13-12, Sterne got caught between the front wall and a hard shot from St. John's racquet. The ball struck him in the left thigh, tying the score and forcing a first-to-five set to decide the game...
Profit, a PBH chairman and a member of Afro, said a "false wall" had been erected between the two organizations. He went on to say, "Afro is convinced that all Negro problems differ from those faced by every other ghetto group, while PBH acts as if all problems were purely economic and environmental and do not differ when a racial dimension is added...
...slur was enough to make every Cornhusker huff-if not puff. In a lengthy report on U.S. marijuana laws, the Wall Street Journal last week reported that the green-flowered cannabis weed from which "grass" is produced "flourishes in temperate climates; one botanist estimates that 17% of the field foliage in Nebraska is marijuana." Replied outraged Nebraska agronomists: "Utterly ridiculous . . . absolutely crazy . . . silly...
...poshlost's favorite breeding places has always been the Art Exhibition; there it is produced by so-called sculptors working with the tools of wreckers, building crankshaft cretins of stainless steel, zen stereos, polystyrene stinkbirds, objects trouves in latrines, cannon balls, canned balls. There we admire the gabinetti wall-patterns of so-called abstract artists, Freudian surrealism, roric smudges and Rorschach blots, all of it as corny in its own right as the academic 'September Morns' and 'Florentine Flowergirls' of half a century...
...perhaps a reconstructed set of blood vessels. Others are bloated, like an octopus with tentacles waving, a man-eating plant, or an anchor squiggling into a second life as a giant sting ray. Still others are stalklike, stiffly articulated into a stack of tibias, and one hangs off the wall-looking for all the world like a pterodactyl. Or then again, maybe a stuffed moose...