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...products included pecorino cheese, certain wines, apple juice, bath preparations, candles, furs, coniferous wood, paper boxes, lithographs, cashmere sweaters, women's suits, dresses, skirts, bed linens, scissors, sewing machines, vacuum cleaners, food grinders, windshield wipers, dolls, photographic equipment, chandeliers, glass Christmas ornaments, sweet biscuits, wafers, felt paper, plastic handbags, coffee or tea makers, electric toy trains, greeting cards, stoves and ballpoint pens...
Exclusive Advocate parties, or "weird Advo love" as the Lampoon lovingly refers to them, may now be the only way for non-snobs to boogie in their building. With slick wood floors and a perfect bar set-up, the Advocate house was once a prime venue for other groups to rent. Last fall however, Advocate Publisher John M. DeStefano '01 sent an ominous message to Pfoho Open, the campus repository of usually useless information, stating that the Advocate was no longer available for future fêtes. Inquiries into the Advocate's policy change led to conflicting tales concerning...
...found himself unemployed at age 52, that he began to pour all his time and accumulated skill and experience into his creations: powerful depictions of human relationships--"pictures about the future of life and the struggle we've been through"--wrought from roots, animal carcasses, discarded wire, rope, tin, wood, carpet, plastic and house paint. Despite his compulsion to create, Dial had always been shy about his art. That changed in 1987, when collector Bill Arnett discovered Dial's work and started buying it up. Shows and commissions followed. Now Dial's art sells for tens of thousands of dollars...
...happy to report no one has gone mad on our farm this winter. We pile on stove wood and wait for spring, when the skies will open and rain frogs...
...pipes jells up and starts to freeze. The radiator in the downstairs bedroom cracks. A case of Diet Cokes in the kitchen bloats to solid ice, each can swollen to bursting, like the Incredible Hulk. Now the water pipes give way. We step outside for firewood to stoke the wood stove, and we gasp: Our breath emerges in jagged-crystal puffs under a cold headlight moon...