Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whereupon the indomitable frump hauls on her baggy tweeds, takes up her trusty golf clubs ("Must keep fit, you know"), and stomps forth to see justice done. In the process, she takes a position as maid-of-all-work in Ackenthorpe Hall, a grim old grange about an hour from London, where she not only discovers the strangled woman's body in the Egyptian sarcophagus-the one that every English country house is fitted out with-tut even grubs up two more fine fresh stiffs. And of course in the end the old bag bags the killer. Best shot...
Following his arrest, Kornacki was hustled off for psychiatric examination. Diagnosis: emotionally disturbed but fit to stand trial. Though the sentence was relatively mild, there are signs that the regime is clamping down on other intellectuals who have been demanding greater freedom of debate and inquiry. Recently, the government stopped the press run, after 7,000 copies had been printed, of a scathing novel, The Divine Caesar, by Jacek Bochenski, which bitterly attacked the Communist order under the guise of exposing ancient Roman tyranny. Muses the novelist's dictator: "Let's face it. Gaul has not been subjugated...
...theatrical opera tells the story of Salvatore, a shabby, greying voice teacher who falls in love with Formica, a curvy voice student. Later, in a fit of jealousy. Salvatore strangles Formica at the peak of a coloratura run. In prison, the murderer's only companion is a queen ant that has flown in the window, and Salvatore comes to believe that the ant is his dead beloved...
Trying to fit these clues and hints into largely unknown lives of unknown men requires great care and precision. Where each item is found will tell when in time it was last used. What objects it is near may give an indication of its use. To get all the information he can from the objects that do turn up, the archaeologist must uncover them slowly and methodically, and then exercise a combination of induction and educated guessing...
...knows what the apostles and disciples really looked like. Even so, argues Artist Ade Bethune in Sacred Signs, a bulletin interested in liturgical arts, modern painters seeking to portray Christ's first followers should not consider themselves free to draw as they see fit. Instead, the contemporary painter should respect "the collective memory of the Church" by following the traditional portrait guidelines that were laid down by the early Christian painters. These models are still followed by the icon makers of the Eastern churches-and, in the case of Christ, by most Western painters...