Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hundreds of others live in vacant cellars or shallow holes gouged out of the city's rocky hillsides. "We don't know where many of them are," says Reconstruction and Development Minister Hazem Nusseibeh. "If we don't make contact soon, many of them will die during the winter...
...conflict. An ex-cavalry colonel shoots his disabled tank. When a man is wounded, his wife abruptly appears on the battlefield. "It hurts," he groans, looking at his shattered legs. "Run 'em under the cold tap, luv," she advises. Real blood spurts from fictitious wounds. After soldiers die, they return to the ranks-for complex symbolic purposes-eerily uniformed not in khaki but in orange, green or blue...
Like an inverted pyramid, all pacifist literature rests upon a single point: as W. H. Auden put it, "We must love one another or die." In How I Won the War, Director Richard Lestersharpens the point pictorially but blunts it philosophically by focusing on a platoon of World War II tommies hellbent on a suicide mission-building an officers' cricket field behind enemy lines in North Africa...
...going to die. You're going to go off the earth. So am I. Do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself is for you to decide...
death could extract pleasure from the taste; it is absurd in our mouth, pepper and ice cream, but at least it is new. As cultures die, they are stricken with the mute implacable rage of that humanity strangled...