Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Willa meanwhile has dreams of being murdered, as well she might, but female realism always defeats female fantasy. "Sauce was too rich at dinner" is Patsy's diagnosis. Willa is that most unlikely of women-one who is frightened of men. She almost gets over this block after a weekend with a jaded Jamaican named Auro, who has "the palest Negro skin" she has ever seen. When she arrives back home after dark, the poor dopey male, Tom, is waiting at the gate to punish his faithless Patsy. "He rose as she went through the gate and acted...
...think the state feels it would be the integral part of any block that Governor Wallace or anybody else might speak of as being his country," Sanders said, although he added that Wallace would capture a large number of the state's votes...
...Senate Armed Services Committee has already taken the position that undergraduate deferments should not be retained, contrary to the Commission's wishes. And the draft legislation that emerges from the House committee, if Chairman L. Mendel Rivers (D.-S.C.) has his way, will block the creation of a lottery for 19-year-olds...
...perceptivity of the mind's movement--its means of wish-fulfillment fantasizing, its rhythms. But one aspect of his method that can be identified is his use of close-ups. Objects inherently grotesque, though subdued by their everyday contexts, often fill his Panavision screen: fishguts on a butcher's block, kidneys plopping into a cat's dish. The viewer perceives that what might have been a "shock image" in Polanski or Hitchcock has not been used as such, but has been subdued by its context, as such things are in our everyday consciousness...
...superblocks there will be an intensive effort to encourage residents to get loans for just about anything they want in the way of renovation. The idea is to talk with block clubs in the immediate area, following their suggestions in the detailed planning and hiring, local people to do the work. Ground-breaking on the first superblock could begin as early as this summer. Planners figure that once they have a couple of blocks to point to, money and community enthusiasm for more of them won't be any problem...