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...will march in the cold ‘till hell freeze over,” he said. “We, the workers, will not go away. For these rights we’ve marched too long, bled too much and died too young...
...night, methought about the midnight hour, A double darkness o'er me seem'd to lower; Pensive I lay, to know what God design'd, Sensations awful fill'd my boding mind! The poor unhappy slaves rose to my view, My former guilt, their wounds now bled anew; I heard their sighs, and saw their big round tears, Wept as they wept, and fear'd with all their fears; Methought I saw once more their natal shore, All stain'd with carnage, red with human gore; Shrouded in blood they now appear'd to stand, And pointed to their agonizing...
...bike trip. Survivors claim the gunmen fired M-16s and grenades from rocket launchers, then stepped over fallen bodies and executed the wounded. The two Europeans, who have yet to be identified, tried desperately to flee on their mountain bikes. One was shot repeatedly in the back. His partner bled to death after a bullet apparently ruptured an artery...
...Jewish seminary until rioters from surrounding Nablus neighborhoods overran it early in the intifadeh. "This is a piece of history," whispers Tibon. "The riot here was a turning point in the intifadeh" because the Israeli army hesitated to rescue one of its soldiers as he bled to death and then had to retreat in the face of a Palestinian onslaught. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has reached another standoff. The violence in the West Bank is giving way to Israeli consolidation, but a deadly fury remains below the surface, lurking in the shadows of the empty streets of Nablus...
...paintings are in black or white on plain canvas, whose natural cream surface is disturbed by flecks of dirt in the weave, stains, splashes or seepage from the oil paint. "Subtlety was so important," says Temkin. "Little drips, 'tears' of paint, scratches," and areas where the color has bled under the masking tape. Against a void, these details carry an emotional charge - it's not hard to find meaning in tears, scratches and bleeding. When these works were shown at the Guggenheim in 1966, some questioned the theme's suitability for a modern Jewish artist. Newman pointed to the subtitle...