Word: cheeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Witnesses, including the red-swathed Ada Emese, swore that Benis were forced to support Owegbe-backed political candidates, a form of intimidation banned by Nigerian law. To ensure compliance with Owegbe commands, initiates were ushered through a grisly ritual, cut three times on the cheek or chest, then made to eat the heart of a cockerel and down a loathsome liquid potion brewed from kola nuts and wine and the blood, hair, finger and toenails of a dead cultist. They finally bound themselves to Owegbe with 24 oaths, each ending with a chilling refrain: "If I refuse . . . let Owegbe make...
...truckload of beer. More than 3,000 of those arrested faced felony charges ranging from looting and armed burglary to arson and murder. To complicate things for the courts, some of the prisoners gave fake names like Richard Burton and Edward G. Robinson. According to a tongue-in-cheek theory making the rounds of white Los Angeles, the riots had not been halted by the National Guard; they simply petered out when all the rioters went home to see themselves on their looted TV sets...
Last April, when Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art gave a black-tie party to celebrate the opening of its "Three Centuries of American Painting" exhibition, Edie and Andy stood cheek by jowl with Lady Bird Johnson, Mrs. Vincent Astor and Harry Guggenheim. Andy was wearing yellow sunglasses and a ragged tuxedo jacket over paint-splattered black work pants. Edie had dyed her hair silver (to match Andy's), wore lilac pajamas that covered nothing but a body stocking. Since then, they have gone to more parties than a caterer, sometimes staying for just a moment before moving...
...stands the excitement of India's great metropolises. Each of the country's major cities-Bombay, Calcutta, New Delhi and Madras-has its own similarities and its own distinctions. Calcutta and Bombay are linked in their visual splendor and their vicious slums; wealth and poverty exist cool cheek by grizzled jowl. Madras, with its burgeoning Hindu evangelism (backed by Shastri's strongman, Congress Party President Kumaraswami Kamaraj), is less metropolitan but more leisurely. Where Bombay is sparked by its Parsi businessmen (descended from 8th century Persian fire worshipers), Madras is tempered by Tamil intellectualism. New Delhi-founded...
...when the tension is finally built up, just begging for resolution and conclusion, Bartok lets it crumble, making a long-winded, rambling apology instead. The finale, in contrast to the rest of the quartet, is a cohesive movement with direction, vitality, and a good share of tongue-in-cheek humor...