Word: erect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to the Book of Joshua, the Lord was pleased when the Israelites assembled at Shiloh, 25 miles north of Jerusalem in the brown-green Samarian hills, to erect a tabernacle in his honor. Today, eight devout Orthodox Jewish families, huddled in mobile homes near the archaeological ruins of biblical Shiloh (pronounced Shelow), are certain the Lord is pleased that his people have reestablished a settlement on the site. Almost no one else is. Shiloh is the newest of four illegal settlements in the West Bank created and populated by Gush Emunim (Group of the Faithful), a nationalistic religious group...
...saving shop. It is a hard-nosed company that will as swiftly foreclose a multimillion-dollar high-rise as a mom-and-pop delicatessen if the mortgage payments lag. Considering the cost of Manhattan real estate and the sensitivities of its stockholders, Citicorp might well have elected to erect yet an other no-frills cereal box as its new showplace...
...some, Sevareid's world view was naive, his evenhandedness mere equivocating. Even fans jokingly called him Eric Everyside, and he was easy to caricature. In Philip Roth's 1971 novel Our Gang, "Erect Severehead" delivered this commentary: "Yet madmen there have been and madmen there will be, and still this nation has endured. And, I daresay, endure it will... leaving us in the end, if not stronger, wiser; and if not wiser, stronger; and if, alas, not either, both...
...public speech, Somoza speaks from behind an enormous protective contraption referred to jestingly by Nicaraguans as the "fish tank" or "bath tub." This is a huge, three-sided bulletproof shed with glass so thick it distorts Somoza's features; three trucks and a crew of 20 are required to erect...
...force lies elsewhere, in the scene showing Strang's brutal rampage through a stable--sparked by his failure to make love to young girl--that eventually leads him to Dysart's couch. After he has brusquely dismissed the girl out of frustration and shame, the unclothed Strang stands fully erect in the loft of the stable, hurling himself into the now familiar rite of horse adulation. Suffused with ambers and golds, the shot evokes a tinted Renaissance fresco, with the rapturous Strang projecting a seeming embodiment of innocence and worship. But then Strang shatters this almost transcendental effect, suddenly jumping...