Word: hides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these fall into two categories: the "it must have looked funny on the drawing board because it sure doesn't look funny on the screen"; and the simply stupid. In the latter category, the knights build a sort of Trojan Horse to enter a castle and then forget to hide themselves within it. In the former, the defenders of a castle attack the approaching army not with boiling oil or arrows, but with large, living animals like sheep and cows. Even the jokes that are somewhat amusing at first--King Arthur has no horse but his page carries split coconut...
...poem, a bitter satire on the suppression in Irish newspapers of a Vatican study on dangers for missionaries in the remoter regions of the world, there are glimpses of an extremely clever man who must hide in too narrow topics: These scholars are modestly selective, Who say our nuns in Africa, Fearful of blackmen yelling 'Ya!', Tearing off starches, heavy drape, Can take an oral contraceptive, An hour or two before the rape, How will they know dread time or place. That leaves the soul still full of grace? Better to wear Dutch cap or wad And after their debauching...
...aristocratic young gentile student who hopes to use his advance warning of the deportation to save as many Jews as possible. On the morning of the deportation, he visits the Jewish quarters on the right bank to alert Jews to the enormity of their peril, to persuade them to hide and to offer them shelter on the left bank. Incredulity, confusion, fear and family solidarity conspire to prevent Jews from following Paul's advice: as French citizens, they cannot believe that the French police herding them into buses are sending them to their deaths. Of the Jews Paul approaches, only...
...made environment in which, trees and-bushes and the crumpled, black shadow left behind by an unseen figure are exotic and often witty interlopers. One of his best photographs is a picture of the thick base of a tree, its bark the texture of an elephant's hide, surrounded by the long, slender fronds and serrated edges of various plants. Here Russell's sensitive eye has captured a startling range of tones and textures...
...doubles teams of Ingard and John Horn led off in the combined thrashings, sinking their opponents, 6-2, 7-5. Reiner and Dan Waldman added another point, winning 6-1, 6-3. Lundy and Hugh Hide finished the shutout at the third position doubles, posting a score...