Word: beast
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nighttime Lesson. The jaguar, a wily, elusive beast that is vicious when cornered, is hunted either by day with dogs or by night with lights. Daredevil bushland residents, like Sarapiqui's Froylan Ponce, prefer night hunting because "it is surer-El Tigre moves at night." Others, like Enrique Martinez, a professional guide from San Jose, have learned a lesson or two. Two years ago Martinez was leading a hunting party that jumped a 250-lb. jaguar at night. He trained his coal miner's head lamp on the animal while one of the hunters took aim and fired...
Beyond Anchorage, the earthquake stalked like an insatiable beast. In the coastal town of Valdez, a hole opened in the dock area and a man and his two little children disappeared into it. Moments later, the entire dock was gone. In Seward, fires fed by ruptured oil tanks raged through the night. Airports for miles around reported buckled runways and disrupted services; at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, the control tower itself collapsed...
Toughness & Charm. Rossiter concedes Hamilton's long distrust of democracy; he does not try to justify Hamilton's disturbingly petty role at the Constitutional Convention (though he reminds readers that one famed snarl attributed to Hamilton-"Your people, sir, is a great beast"-is apocryphal). Rossiter concentrates instead on Hamilton's role in the ratification and first implementation of the Constitution...
...occasionally forced into ridiculous acrobatics in his nervous pacing of the stage. Above all, Murray fails to exploit the dramatic possibilities of the boy's climactic suicide. In some productions, the boy terrorizes the cast and family with his pistol while shrinking like a crazed beast from his sister's murder; Murray hides him behind a set and assumes a loud band will serve as well. The effect is slightly startling, to be sure, but grotesque rather than coldly shocking, as Pirandello must have intended...
...least an actor and a half. Both J. D. Cannon and James Earl Jones are enormously skillful. At first Cannon seems considerate, practical, matter-of-fact, and then his nerves start to sing like high-tension wires. The playgoer senses that he is watching a man hiding from the beast in himself. James Earl Jones can be as quiet as an extinct volcano one moment, and spewing emotional lava across a stage the next. With some actors, words clothe feelings; with Jones, feelings unclothe words so that joy, rage, wonder and sadness radiate nakedly through the theater...