Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came to the attention of Sargent Sargent Shriver, now one of his principal backers. In the ring against Frazier and during the last weeks of his preparation for the fight. Foreman won the allegiance of flocks of Jamaicans, who sensed in him something of the same quality that had drawn them to Muhammad Ali. When the fight was over, the Jamaicans carried Foreman out of the ring, a dozen of them holding him parallel to the sky above their shoulders. The arena was in the open air of the starry Jamaican night...
...visitors find most compelling about Haiti, however, are the Haitians themselves. Their culture, deeply rooted in the African past and leavened by 18th century French colonial rule, is unique in the Western Hemisphere. From the faces of its people to the unofficial national religion of voodoo, from the ox-drawn carts and brightly painted buses to the folk arts and cacophonous marketplaces, Haiti is reminiscent of West Africa, the former slave coast that is the ancestral homeland of most of its inhabitants...
Details of the death scenario were drawn from literature...
...Bergman's religious trilogy from the early 60's. More than any of Bergman's other films, it has an austere, condensed visual strength that makes analysis of its imagery almost superfluous. Its depiction of religiosity is ambiguous, yet profound, and so Simon carefully explores possible conclusions to be drawn from the ending--where the pastor, whose faith has deserted him, begins the Vespers service before an audience consisting solely of his church's staff and his atheist former mistress...
...jacket and stomp on it. In more joyful moments, he would dance the boogaloo and even lead the crowd in cheers. To confuse opponents, he once had his players switch jersey numbers. To "get the crowd going with us," he has charged onto the floor and deliberately drawn a technical foul. "I know some of them coaches are smarter," drawls Driesell, "and some are better lookin', but none of 'em is gonna outwork ole Lefty...