Word: gash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doorway, Ferdinand, his large three-year-old St. Bernard, looked on. Di Franco leaned down to pat the dog's head. Without warning, the animal leaped forward and Di Franco felt his face gripped between Ferdinand's powerful, crushing jaws as his pet tore a long gash in his right cheek that took scores of stitches to repair...
...myth. In his latest offering, Napoleon Symphony, the author, who is also a serious composer, has reached for everything from kazoos to pipe organs. The result is a mock epic about the career of Napoleon Bonaparte that sometimes reads like Dickens, sometimes like Tennyson and Wordsworth, with an occasional gash of Gerard Manley Hopkins' gold-vermilion. "The last section of the book is written in the style of Henry James," Burgess explains without a trace of solemnity, "because Henry James believed he was Napoleon when he was dying...
...SECOND HALF of the show is devoted to Bip, Marceau's alter ego and trademark for the past 25 years. In a worn out high silk hat topped by a flower, his eyes and arched eyebrows darkened, his mouth a red gash, Bip is "the silent witness of the lives of men, struggling against one handicap or another, with joys and sorrows as their daily companions." Born out of the tradition of the nineteenth century which created Pierrot during the French Revolution, Bip is the nostalgic dreamer, arousing pity and empathy as he is confronted by each successive disaster...
...noon the third day I couldn't keep control of my mind. I said I surrendered. They kept beating me on the hour until 6 p.m. By this time I had a gash over the eye where my head had hit the edge of the bed during one beating, my leg was throbbing and bleeding, my back was bloody. I signed a statement agreeing to do everything the camp commandant ordered...
...counting the episode between periods of a recent match in Philadelphia, when Coach Al Arbour of the St. Louis Blues suffered a ten-stitch gash on his head and was stripped of his coat and shirt in a wild 30-minute brawl in the stands between St. Louis players, fans and 200 policemen. Arbour and three of his players were later arrested for assault and battery and released on $500 bond each...