Word: downes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FIGHT FOR US. A saintly priest is gunned down and mutilated. A basketball team is massacred. A female rebel is raped by a vigilante commandant; when the commandant is killed, his lieutenant carves open the dead man's chest and eats his flesh. These horrifying events might seem the stuff...
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At lunch that day, all she could think about (and all Richard Cohen, the legal director of the center, could recall her talking about) was water. On the flight down, she was particularly struck by a line from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, the line...
What she showed Morris Dees, the SPLC's executive director, and Cohen that day, roughly sketched on a paper napkin, was a slightly curved black granite wall, 8 3/4 ft. high and 39 ft. long, that would bear part of the King passage. Above it, on what would be the...
"It's the kind of thing," Lin says, "that requires patience, awareness and added sensitivity. Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as...