Word: cornered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what remote corner of the U.S. did the residents celebrate Easter by nailing a member of their religious sect to a cross? See THE NATION, The Agony of Tierra Amarilla...
AMONG the crowds of holiday - visitors to the Exhibition Center in the TIME & LIFE Building these days, many people will find the show familiar. By now, it is almost as much a part of the season in Manhattan as the great tree that is decorated every December around the corner in Rockefeller Plaza. Year after year, people come back to see the Nativity as portrayed by Renaissance masters-25 color photographs of delicate accuracy, blown up to the size of the originals. Carols from the 15th to the 18th century provide background music, and visitors can also listen...
...high, while the other pinioned his left leg. Snap went a ligament in Hanratty's left knee, and that was the end of his season. Four days later, the Chicago Bears' breakaway halfback, Gale Sayers, hit similar trouble when he tried to turn the corner on an end run. He planted his right foot to cut downfield, and was hit from the side by San Francisco Cornerback Kermit Alexander. Sayers was carried off the field with three ruptured ligaments and a torn cartilage in his right knee. With him probably went the Bears' hopes of winning...
...also includes many grotesquely distorted portraits of his friends, among them George Dyer, his studio assistant, Isabel Rawsthorne, wife of Composer Alan Rawsthorne, and Painter Lucian Freud, Sigmund's grandson. On one canvas, a hypodermic syringe rises from what looks like a well-beaten body, while in a corner of another a bird that has been plucked stark naked screeches desperately on his perch...
Wolfe scored the winning goal in the second cuarter. Dribbling around the Eli defense to a point just outside the circle, Wolff kicked the ball past the Yale goalie into the lower corner...