Word: waterized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...destitute school teacher living at the turn of the century who devised and executed what seemed the perfect plan for money and fame. After building with her thin hands a barrel to enclose her body like a womb and shelter her from her fall over the raging ledge of water, Annie Taylor subsequently became the first person in history to propel herself down the length of Niagara Falls in a barrel...
...Murray painfully illustrates, this feat of daring and desperation did not have the effect Annie desired. Immediately after experiencing the shock and joy of her self-described immaculate rebirth within the Falls, Annie climbs out of the water and is greeted only by cold disbelief and disgust. Instead of a symbol of beauty and hope, the crowd gathered to see her feat finds instead "a woman, short and plain and only slightly bruised,/ moving dizzily among them/ like a fly hatched by mistake in the winter sun." To the crowd gathered and to history itself, Annie was an ugly...
...think that someone has a capacity to write to a larger audience, we will encourage them," she says. "We never tell them to water it down...
...VOLLEYBALL 3, MIT 1 W. Water Polo 22, BROWN 3 W. Lacrosse vs. B.C. (at Bentley...
SUNDAY RPI 4, M. Hockey 2 UMASS 10, W. Lacrosse 3 M. Tennis 5, V. COMMONWEALTH 2 M. Volleyball 3, QUEENS 2 W. Water Polo 21, B.U. 3 W. Water Polo...