Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outside his close circle of reonoclastic conservative friends (the most outrageous and witty one wears an "I Love Ron" button and tugs a rubber shark on a leash when he goes to nuclear freeze rallies) Hart was pitted against what he calls the liberal "ethos" that diseased the administration and most of the student body...
...only a little. Then, just after midnight, the state of Georgia undertook to kill him. The 39-year-old murderer, looking scared, was strapped into the electric chair, electrodes fastened to his shaved head and shaved right leg. Superintendent Ralph Kemp counted to three, a volunteer executioner pushed a button, and 2,080 volts, 20 times the charge in a household socket, coursed through Stephens for two full minutes...
...apparently unconscious, was not dead. According to Georgia execution procedure, five more minutes had to pass before a pair of prison doctors could examine him and certify that he was alive. "The execution has not been completed," said Kemp rather formally, "and will be reinstituted at this time." The button was pushed again, Stephens stiffened and, at last, stopped moving...
...similar to those made between 1400 and 1350 B.C., and the copper ingots, with their characteristic handles, which resemble one drawn on an Egyptian tomb at Thebes dating from 1350 B.C. The nationality of the vessel is suggested by the discovery of a miniature seal, no larger than a button, with markings similar to those used by the Greek merchants who dominated the ancient Mediterranean trade routes. Bass speculates that the ill-starred voyage had picked up tin in Syria and sailed west to acquire copper in Cyprus before heading for either Greece or Turkey...
...compassion for its protagonist, a Viet Nam vet returning home. The lyrics are full of stabbing detail: this vet's wife "called up her mama to make sure the kids were out of the house/ She checked herself out in the dining room mirror/ And undid an extra button on her blouse." As in Ernest Hemingway's seminal short story Soldier's Home, the reunion is full of restless memories and long shadows. The vet lies in bed, next to his wife, staring at the ceiling, his hands paralyzed, terrified of the darkness and the narrow future...