Word: boar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their rivalry goes back a long way, covering more than 100 contests. The most recent was two months ago, a nontide boar in which the challenger knocked the champ down several times and hung for the decision. Tonight, at Boston Garden, the bell rings for Round...
...naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen...
...spans have shrunk to the length of a station break are going to find Riddley Walker easy to bypass. The novel's first sentence, for example, is not exactly a conventional grabber: "On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen." Even patient readers are likely to riffle pages at this point, trying to find out how long such...
...husbanding of his energies. Said a Western observer in Prague last week: "Brezhnev pays a price for trips like this. At his age he has to rest for several days afterward to regain his strength." All too obviously, traveling takes its toll on the man who once gloried in boar hunts, flashy Western automobiles, good food and drink and, not least, the sociable company of attractive women...
...looks, Nevelson's style may be described as collage driven relentlesrelentlessly to excess, a cross between Catherine the Great and a bag lady: pailady: paisley scarves, blue work shirt, full-length chinchilla, OrientaOriental brocade, embroidered waistband, flounces, a rattling boar-tusk necklace and a black riding cap. (When Nevelson was picked as one of the twelve Best-Dressed Women by Publicist Eleanor Lambert in 1977, few of her acquaintances were surprised: there was, as one friend remarked, nowhere else to put her and no known way to ignore her.) "Personally, I'm dramatic, it seems," she told...