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...This artist arrived at an esthetic blend of East and West by drawing by turns on Sumi-ink training in his native Japan, the tutelage of Seattle Zen Master Takizaki and, finally, the abstract expressionism of Mark Tobey (who selected this show). Horiuchi's abstract collages, composed of torn bits of rice and mulberry paper stained in misty shades of grey, evoke not so much nature's shapes as its weathery moods-sleet, snow, rain...
...second place to the phrase "violence flared," third place to "flatly denied." The rest of the runners-up: "racially troubled," "voters marched to the polls," "jampacked," "usually reliable sources," "backlash," "kickoff" (as applied to anything but a football game), "limped into port," "gutted by fire,-" "death and destruction," "riot-torn," "strife-torn," "tinder-dry woodlands," "in the wake of," "no immediate comment," "guarded optimism," "-wise" (as in percentage-wise...
Knee inuries are particularly difficult to treat because they are hard to diagnose. Harvard tackle Neal Curtin, hurt in the Massachusetts game, remained in limbo for weeks before he was found to have an torn alignments his knee and not a more serious cartilage damage...
Although the Huskies gave Harvard little trouble last season in absorbing 4-2 and 7-5 defeats, this year's squad has already torn apart Colby 8-4 and pathetic Bowdoin 13-1. Leading its speedy but sometimes sloppy offense are Bill Seabury, Larry Bone, and Bob DeBlois. The formerly weak Northeastern defense has been bolstered by sophomores Don Turcotte and Ron Jeanneault...
...Prince last week left little to the imagination. "Dr. Francois Duvalier will fulfill his sacrosanct mission. He has crushed and will always crush the attempts of the opposition. Think well, renegades. Here is the fate awaiting you and your kind." Below was a photograph of three severed heads torn from the bodies of captured anti-Duvalier guerrillas and displayed at Haiti's National Palace. Just in case anyone missed the message, "Papa Doc" administered yet another object lesson to his opposition. In a chilling ceremony at Port-au-Prince's "Ex-terieur" cemetery, he staged Haiti...