Word: insertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the Harvard Lampoon hit the streets this week, something was missing. Pages three through six had been ripped out and replaced by a loose insert...
...between bright baby-blue barrels marking the route of the motorcade. It was a damp morning. The weary buildings belonged to the gray sky. But the street was proud with flags. Children held their own yellow-and-white papal banners-made the night before out of a glossy-stock insert from the Sunday Boston Globe. The HQ Company 181 of the National Guard, out of Worcester, lined the street...
...Boys are apparently of pre-Olmec origin, sculptured by predecessors of the earliest known civilization in Mesoamerica, who dwelt in a region around Izapa, an ancient priestly center just across the border in Mexico. The gifted artisans did not insert magnetic rocks into the figures, but apparently carved them around natural magnetic poles in the original basaltic boulders. But how did they discover this magnetism? Mesoamerica's oldest known lodestone, or primitive compass, a 2.5-cm (1-in.) bar made of magnetic rock, dates back only to 1000 B.C., a millennium younger than the Fat Boys and some...
...producer or the studio head, the director is outclimaxed. William Wyler, for example, directed Wuthering Heights for Samuel Goldwyn in 1939, closing the film with both main characters, Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) and Catherine (Merle Oberon), dead. Such a somber ending greatly disturbed Goldwyn, and he asked Wyler to insert a brief clip of the two lovers in heaven. The director firmly refused. Thus it was a stunned Wyler who attended the premiere and watched Heathcliff and Catherine strolling amid cottony clouds just before the lights went...
...Delp, the homecoming meant a return to a track where his loud clothes and louder boasts are accepted as part of racing, rather than viewed as an affront to the sport's traditions. Pausing to insert a cigarette in a new golden holder, and watching to see that the photographers had a good angle, Delp held forth: "My horse is gonna win. I predict that now. My horse is gonna win unless he breaks his leg or his neck...