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Word: boar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...existing except to provide a contracted actress with a job for the evening. And in a few instances Serban gives in to the urge to be maddeningly and incongruously ambiguous, as when he has two characters enter from a glowing portal set in a huge tapestry depicting a boar hunt. You think of the Juniper Tree rhinoceri and shake your head...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: Curtain Call: | 2/20/1987 | See Source »

Dichotomies abound in Vincent Edward Jackson, 23, nicknamed Bo for the resemblance he once bore to a boar. As a boy, Jackson was a bully with a gentle streak. At Auburn, he seemed as apt to persevere with a separated shoulder as to demur with a tender hamstring. "You wouldn't call him a gung- ho practice player," Coach Pat Dye recalls fondly. "I'm sure it was like work to him, but it never looked that way. Baseball thinks Rickey Henderson is fast. They're going to find out what speed is. Speed, size, grace, courage. He had everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bo's Going to Follow His Dream | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

Locally they are known as "scraphogs," and a few wear T shirts with a cartoon of a wild boar grinding a bomb in its teeth. Just after dawn each day, about 40 gather at the hillside, pick up pails and sift through the dirt and sagebrush for rusted metal and twisted steel. They occasionally dig up the nozzle of a Polaris missile or the casing of a 1,000-lb. bomb. Under the pitiless Nevada sun, each averages 1,000 lbs. of scrap metal a day. "It's rough work," says Billy Marshall of Hawthorne, Nev. "When I started, young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scraphogs Invade Hawthorne | 6/30/1986 | See Source »

...permit came after more than an hour of public discussion last night among the five members of the zoning appears board before a crowd of nearly 75, onlookers. A hearing lasting five hours was held in June to allow residents and shelter officials to present their cases before the boar...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Cambridge Board Prevents Shelter From Moving Into Central Square | 8/9/1985 | See Source »

...horrible, the matter-of-factness of the Venetian lap dog, familiar from many a Carpaccio, licking up the satyr's blood, or the prim, detached attentiveness of Apollo as he peels the skin. Yet the whole unlikely scene is anchored by one riveting device: Titian must have seen boar hunts in the woods around his native Cadore, and the satyr is strung on the tree like a wild pig ready for dressing, every stiff hair on his matted legs contributing its realism to the myth. On the right is another of Apollo's victims: Midas, the Phrygian king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Legacy of La Serenissima | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

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