wonner

"Gawd," he said, "I wonner if I've been played fer a duffer."

"Ye ugly, creepin, blastit wonner Detested, shunn'd by saunt an' sinner."

This part of California has always been Thiebaud's base, and he has an affinity--at least of friendship and shared seriousness about painting--with a group of artists who flourished in the San Francisco Bay Area: Elmer Bischoff, David Park, Nathan Oliveira, Paul Wonner, Richard Diebenkorn.

The merger with Systancia, which we've known for several years, was a obvious next step considering our shared ambition in several areas," says David Wonner, President of Avencis.

Oregon Women: Jess Eldridge, first; Chloe Hallock, second; Leah Shirley, alternate Washington Women: Lisa Greenacre, first; Colleen Wonner, second; Adrienne Watral, alternate

It may also pay to learn a few phrases of local dialect, such as ``Bostin' Bovril!'', ``D'yow got any UB40?'' and, if wooing a lady, ``We wonner be togevva!''.

The following year she made plans to live permanently vith Brown anti his lover Paul Wonner, but this menage a trois collapsed immediately.

PHOTO : Dutch Still Life with Primroses, Paul Wonner, 1979, acrylic on canvas

YE ugly creepin', blastit, wonner. Detested, shunn'd by saunt and sinner.

(2) This was an area known as a site for making wonners, digging sticks used by women to unearth roots or bullfrogs, which were also used to resolve disputes between women (Collard et al.