Word: petits
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...which it achieves real interest. The runners beneath the plates are a veritable encyclopedia of needlework techniques, studied and carried out by Chicago's many co-workers at a high level of technical skill-pieced or appliqued quilting, trapunto, flame stitch, crewelwork, embroidery with pearls and beads, stumpwork, petit point and even the intricate and demanding form of needlework with composite materials (silk floss, gold and silver thread, jewels) known in the 13th and 14th centuries as "English work," opus anglica-num. Each runner is fashioned from materials that are painstakingly appropriate to the woman being commemorated. For Sacagawea...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard's defense played it's finest game of the season, largely because of a superhuman effort from Mark Fusco. The sophomore played perhaps the best all-around game of his career...Brown's Darrell Petit, whose two-minute penalty at 6:35 of the first period is memorable because it contained three possible infractions, may be the dirtiest player in the ECAC. Incomprehensibly, Petit even complained to official Bill Quinn about the call...Crimson defenseman Alan Litchfield has become the team's hardest and most consistent checker. Litchfield played a solid game in every respect and is challenging...
...Road Movies, dir. Chris Petit...
DIED. Paul Robert, 69, France's Noah Webster, compiler of the famous seven-volume Dictionnaire Alphabetique et Analogique de la Langue Francaise known familiarly as the Grand Robert, and its one-volume condensation, the Petit Robert; after a long illness; in Mougins, France. While still a law student, he realized the inadequacy of existing French dictionaries, especially in cross references to synonyms and analogues; in 1945 he gave up the law for lexicography. Official recognition from the Academic Francaise for his early work encouraged him to proceed from A to zymotique, and, with occasional detours into books on other...
...clever village idiot who knows, at least what idiocy he has perpetrated. And what idiocy he has not. One frustrating day, when nothing goes right for the luckless Perrin, he decides to leave town, to remove his boyish good looks and soccer talent from the clutches of the petit-bourgeois burghers of Trincamp, a quaint French ville whose occupants lust for a national soccer championship. But before Perrin can escape, the local cops nab him for a rape he didn't commit...