Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...version of King Lear, starring both Norman Mailer and Burgess Meredith as Lear and Molly Ringwald as Cordelia. Godard, who later boasted that he had never read the play, seemed determined to accomplish what the banks and an indifferent movie public have not quite yet achieved: to bankrupt the Cannon Group, his sponsoring studio...
When the protesters marched down palm-lined Jen-Ai Road toward the Presidential Office Building, they discovered that rows of riot police had sealed the routes with barbed-wire barricades and water cannon. White-helmeted marshals among the marchers moved quickly to keep order. The demonstrators settled for more speeches and sang the opposition's rallying song, United for Taiwan. The police stayed back but blasted martial music from their own sound trucks to drown out the protesters...
...Refuge, 40 miles southwest of Bakersfield. Sweeping down on its 9 1/2-ft. wingspan, it settled in for breakfast. But the seven-year-old male bird, which had eluded pursuers for seven months, had at last fallen into a trap. Captors hidden nearby set off small explosives that launched a "cannon net" over the condor, and A.C. 9 was grounded for what wildlife experts say is his own good. The bird was endangered by his civilized surroundings: first by Indians who sought feathers, later by poison traps and lead from bullets in dead animals. A.C. 9, one of only 27 condors...
...performance or scientific achievement. Such awards should of course serve the purpose of celebrating those who have made a lasting contribution to art. But they should serve a higher function as well. Awards are not for those who receive them but for those who do not; they establish a cannon of taste, set a standard for quality in artistic achievement and defy the aspiring artist in the audience to come up with something better. Awards should be a self-effacing event, a reward of past achievement and, more importantly, a challenge to those who have failed to reach the same...
GARCIA Lorca's Blood Wedding, easily the most famous play by the most famous 20th century Spanish writer, has by now surely earned a place in the Spanish theatrical canon analogous to that of Romeo and Juliet in the English cannon. Like Romeo and Juliet, Garcia Lorca's version of the classic theme of star-crossed lovers and feuding families is a poetic tragedy, rich in symbolic imagery and comic in scope...