Word: caging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spotless white shirt and breeches with soft leather belt, bounded into the spotlight of the center ring and doffed his pith helmet. Then, whip in his right hand, a steel-reinforced chair plus blank-loaded pistol in his left, he would summon the first ferocious cat into the cage...
Beatty believed in pushing his luck to the limit. When his act began to pall, he mixed lions, tigers, leopards, pumas and hyenas. Then he became the first man ever to mix lions and tigers of both sexes, eventually performing with more than 40 in the cage at the same time. It was a threatening, unstable mixture, and often it exploded. To hear Beatty tell about it was spine-tingling. "Nero [a black-maned lion] stood over me, ready to sink his teeth in my face. Desperate, I planted the palm of my right hand against his nose and shoved...
Stern '66, director of the last week that the house Carey Cage and the school playing fields at times a week. In in Lincoln has use of a building, a a lake for nature swimming...
...newly affluent New People of the English working class, Clegg collects butterflies in his off-hours until he wins $200,000 in the football pool and can suddenly indulge his wildest fancies. He buys a remote country house, converts its vaulted cellar into a more or less gilded cage, and kidnaps Miranda, a vivacious London art student whose beauty has enraptured him from afar. "He is an empty space designed as a human," his astonished captive confides to her diary, "slow, unimaginative, lifeless, like zinc white...
...together to virtually place the viewer inside the main character's skin, the film attains tragic proportions; if they do not, it degenerates into sensationalism. In The Pawnbroker the backdrop of the city creates a matrix which binds up the different devices and makes them effective. The pawnbroker's cage or the ugly apartment houses standing for the community achieve a near-symbolism, so that the viewer stops thinking in terms of reality and enters the special world of Nazemann...