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...oeuvre, most notably clay. The star piece in the show at Castelli is Dirt Shrine: South, 1982, a pseudo combine in which all the disparate elements (tire track, painted chain, stone, bamboo ladder) were made from fired ceramic in Japan. The characteristic montage of Rauschenbergian imagery-a sumo wrestler holding a tiny alligator, schools of fish, a dump truck, and other elliptical images of ancient and modern Japan, mostly derived from photographs-is fired into the glaze. The result, a hybrid of traditional and new technologies, looks both archaic and slick...
...especially one as huge as this Bear. From his jug ears to his legend, in every way he is more than several sizes larger than standard: 6 ft. 3½ in., 210 lbs., 322 victories (more of those than anyone else); a farmer's son from Arkansas, a wrestler of carnival bears, "the other end" to Don Hutson at Alabama, the other coach to Adolph Rupp at Kentucky, the scourge of Texas A&M, the sage of Alabama, the supreme being of college football. George Blanda, his quarterback at Kentucky 34 years ago, was the first to note...
...subways, featuring dainty brides and dapper grooms, offer such cut-rate packages as the "Shining Love" ceremony ($2,500), performed in a small chapel at one of Tokyo's luxe hotels. At the top of the line, however, was the recent marriage of Chiyonofuji, a Grand Champion sumo wrestler. Price: $580,000. His bride's three ceremonial kimonos alone cost $370,000. One minor craze in the current Nipponese nuptial season is the extravagant "performance" wedding. At one service, the star-struck couple ascended to the ceiling in a makeshift space capsule trailing dry-ice exhaust...
Easily winning the 142-lb, weight class, Harvard's Andy McNerney was unanimously named the tournament's Outstanding Wrestler. McNerney found little competition during the weekend, whitewashing Southern Conn.'s Rick Babitts, 17-0, for his narrowest victory...
...male cheerleaders are just as athletic, if not more so than their female counterparts. Friedman runs track for Harvard and sophomore Barry Bausano is a talented wrestler. In addition, swimming sensation Larry Countryman recently joined the squad. Erelimaintains that some of the lifts and pyramids the cheerleaders perform demand a good deal of athletic ability. "There is enough skill involved to really make it interesting." he says. "Some of the things we do take a couple of months to really get down...