Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many African artists, the act of creation itself is a religious experience. Zaire's Mwabila Pemba, a specialist in beaten copper, rises daily at 5 a.m. to pray and believes that as he works "I'm in the hands of a divine force." He is among multitudes who speak of creating through prayers, dreams and inspiration from the Bible. Africans know that this makes them oddities among the world's modern-day artists. Ben Nhlanhla Nsusha, who recently returned to Johannesburg after five years of study in London, says the young artists in England "can't understand...
...most common advice offered battered women is for them to leave the men who abuse them. But experts say some men, panicked by loss of control over their previously cowered partners, become even more violent after separation. "It's extremely rare that you read about a man who has beaten a woman to death while she's living with him," says Ellen Pence of the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project in Duluth, Minn. "It's when she leaves him that he kills...
...women whose partners went through the program were no longer being battered. "It's made a big difference in our life," says a woman whose boyfriend attended the classes two years ago. "Without that program we would have broken up, because I know he would have beaten me again...
...perfect record at home this season. "I think it's about as favorable to us as it could be. They're coming here on our home ice; they're not rated number one in the nation. If we lose we have two or three games, so if we get beaten by a fluke we have a chance to come back...
More than the others, Anderson challenges the guards, although for some reason he is beaten less frequently. He goes on a seven-day hunger strike when they suddenly ban the radio and the occasional copies of the International Herald Tribune. He does not know it, but the news blackout is imposed so he will not learn of the deaths of his father and brother back in the U.S. He does find out, however, that since his kidnaping his second daughter, Sulome, has been born...