Word: blankets
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...stands over her laundry in a wooden room in rural Tennessee. Lloyd sits in a chair near her, shivering under his blanket, devoured by a disease he is ashamed of and afraid to face. There is a perpetual tension between the two; Lloyd is sexually crippled and jealous of Mae, who has been seduced by an unbearable desire to educate herself. Indeed, at the school where she goes to learn rudimentary reading and mathematics, she has met an advanced reader named Henry, and she is falling in love...
...There's no reason why I should be here tonight," Parris says as she snuggled under a blanket in the Loeb's "Green Room" on Sunday night. She soon went back to sleep...
...Finkel, as a "lollipop piece." "The Gypsy Virtuoso" was full of smiling allusions to the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies and the Brahms Hungarian Dances, all poured into the formal mold or a concerto movement. Glennie's arrangement of a Kevin Volans piece, "She who sleeps with a small blanket," is, in her own word, "disconcerting," scored for bongos, congas, bass drum, and marimba. Whoever "She" is, she has nightmares. The concert continued with a virtuoso marimba solo, "Velocities" by Joseph Schwantner. Schwantner, a composer-in-residence at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, has undoubtedly made a fine...
...response to the editorial dissent, "Guns Aren't the Problem" (Opinion, April 26) by Noah Oppenheim and Adam Taub, I encourage both of them to read the "Living Through Littleton" editorial more closely. They claim that the staff makes "vague, blanket demands." On the contrary, the staff specifically argues against gun control laws in Colorado and other states from being loosened or revoked, and against the NRA campaign for gun concealment. Oppenheim and Taub also write, "concerned citizens ought to look deeper and discern the less obvious forces". If the two editors look carefully, they will notice that the editorial...
...response to the editorial dissent, "Guns Aren't the Problem" (Opinion, April 26) by Noah Oppenheim and Adam Taub, I encourage both of them to read the "Living Through Littleton" editorial more closely. They claim that the staff makes "vague, blanket demands." On the contrary, the staff specifically argues against gun control laws in Colorado and other states from being loosened or revoked, and against the NRA campaign for gun concealment. Oppenheim and Taub also write, "concerned citizens ought to look deeper and discern the less obvious forces". If the two editors look carefully, they will notice that the editorial...