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...felt well. Chang's doctor ordered the twins to stay indoors. But in their turn-and-turnabout living pattern, it was time for them to move from Chang's house in White Plains, N.C., to Eng's. They made the switch in a buggy in the damp January cold of the North Carolina mountains. Next night, Eng awoke with a feeling of unease and called in one of his sons. Said the boy: "Uncle Chang is dead." Eng replied: "Then I am going also." Within three hours, and before a doctor arrived, Eng had died...
They made her a grave too cold and damp...
...striking portrait in its own right, but the drama is in the subtle conflicts between toughness and tenderness, courage and decay, and in the years of suffering implied by every wrinkle in the flesh and every blemish on the wall. In The Mill, Wyeth tried to capture "the damp feeling, the strength of the land," yet, in this silent scene, a feeling of conflict is still there as the earth struggles to wrench itself from the cold clutch of winter...
...iron shackles; dark, damp cells; rotten rice; and 48 kinds of U.S.-designed torture fail to away the prisoners." The imperialists whip one Communist stalwart into unconsciousness. When he revives, he tells his captors: "Beat and torture me as you like! These are our Party secrets. You will never get anything from me." Presently, after many such thrilling incidents, our Communists escape...
...19th centuries. The most recent pieces of traditional art in the show are wood carvings 50 years old. The older things have survived because they are made of terra cotta. bronze, iron or brass; millions of wood sculptures have been destroyed over the ages by fire, termites, jungle damp or the iconoclasm of Christian missionaries...