Word: heaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would feel at home there. Houses with handsome fireplaces remained pretty cold, reading by candlelight was difficult, and there was still no running water. It was only the industrial era that brought such improvements as household gas lamps in the 1840s, electricity in the 1880s and then the great heap of laborsaving appliances at the turn of the century. In 1870 fully 60% of employed American women worked as household servants; 50 years later most of the servants had vanished, to be replaced by electric vacuums and washing machines. "The feminine idea of the home . . . shifted the focus from...
...power. Titus features three hands chopped off, one tongue cut out, two doses of unknowing cannibalism, plus gang rape, and murders by sword, starvation and bleeding to death. Director Pat Patton represents the gore in Japanese fashion, with streamers of red ribbon, but audiences still titter as bodies heap up on the stage. Titus, a great general defied by his children and betrayed by his country, is often regarded as a forerunner of King Lear, lacking only the self-realization. Actor Henry Woronicz finds in the role such majesty, pathos, rage and ruin that he seems ready to take...
...that I'm down on Americans, you understand. They're mostly good and almost normal once you git to know 'em. I'm never too down on Americans or too up. This ole raft of ours has covered a heap of territory since that Mississippi ride, and I seen too many changes, too many wars, to feel much like flag wavin' or flag burnin'. One thing I come to know is that bein' alone makes you 'preciate the help of others when you need them, and makes you 'preciate the lonesomeness of others too, when they need you. Maybe Americans...
This is the one that if an oarsman wins, he stands on the dock sipping champagne, as up to fifteen competitors who just weren't as fast heap their racing shirts on his shoulder. You even get a gold medal...
Princess Margaret tipsily suggests that the new royal baby be christened Johnny Walker, then collapses in a drunken heap. The Pope comes on as just another hipster in wraparound shades, with a banjo and a Texas drawl. And Ronald Reagan spends most of his time in pajamas searching for his missing brain...