Word: ward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Horror! Humor! Fairground Art (Abbeville; 312 pages; $85) offers 1,100 illustrations (700 in glorious color) of European and American carnival equipment and advertising, many of which deserve an exclamation mark. Authors Geoff Weedon and Richard Ward provide a pictorial history of their eye-catching subject, from the primitive wedding-cake carousels of the last century to the heavy-metal speed rides of today. The history of the merry-go-round discloses an intriguing variety of national tastes. Americans preferred animals in armor; the French were fond of cats and bunnies; and the Germans liked galloping pigs. As fascinating...
...NOTEBOOK: The ice women travel to Brown Wednesday night for another important Ivy showdown...Dooley, who celebrated a birthday Saturday, applauded the play of Tate, as well as Vicki Palmer, Liz Ward and Diane Hurley...The seven goals allowed by Harvard marked the third time this year the ice women have surrendered that many...
Minuteman junior guard Wendy Ward tallied only eight points, but she managed to keep Harvard running all night. Ward ran the UMass attack, directing traffic for her freshmen teammates and getting them the ball at their favorite spots on the court. Her sharpshooters rarely missed...
...Crimson, guard Ann Scannell not only played tight defense on Ward but scored 19 points as well. Co-Captain Frenesa Hall tallied a personal high for the season, chalking up 10 points in relief of Home...
...four writer-producer-directors, want to tap into the vein of familiar everyday crisis that fuels all melodrama. What often sends them wide of the mark is a penchant for insipid shock value (a make-out scene in a morgue) and a sentimental streak as wide as an emergency ward. When James Coco and Doris Roberts appeared last week as two street derelicts, they seemed to bring everything in their ragtag baggage but a violin and a cup. Roberts, facing the amputation of both feet because her frozen toes had become gangrenous, was forced into a literally incredible choice between...