Word: donkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Love has always been blind, but that does not appease the Iris Murdoch demon. Her 13 novels, written over 16 years, are cruel choreographies for lovers who must play a game of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey in which there is no tail and no donkey. The grotesque charade is heightened by the fact that Murdoch's lovers are usually intellectuals, often philosophers or linguists, who can talk their way to "steamy moral altitudes" while betraying others and mortifying themselves...
Eventually the British troops sealed off the area with barbed wire and guarded a few roads into the Bogside. Inside Bogside, Radio Free Derry began broadcasting and two newspapers were printed. There were Black Panther movies shown on the sides of buildings. free donkey rides and toffee-apples and a music festival with rock groups...