Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japanese Art in the Age of Grandeur," together with its exemplary catalogue supervised by the Met's assistant curator of Far Eastern art, Julia Meech-Pekarik. The title, puffy as it sounds, is not (for once) a piece of museological bombast. The Japanese government has cooperated to the hilt, or tsuba, lending many works which are inaccessible even to the Japanese: these registered National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties have never left Japan before. They include such extraordinary objects as the sliding doors that Kanō Eitoku, aged 23, decorated with a design of a crane and a tree...
...Ethiopian government, which had been toying with the idea of negotiating with the rebels, bluntly announced that it had decided instead to crush them by force. The same day, Eritrean guerrillas -armed to the hilt by Libya, Algeria and other militant Arab powers-ambushed and burned seven fuel trucks 30 miles from the Eritrean port of Assab. Two days later, they destroyed an Ethiopian army column, then launched the heaviest assault on the provincial capital in the 13-year history of the revolt...
Radcliffe had been undefeated entering last weekend's contest with Penn, but the Quakers put a hilt to the Crimson's unbeaten streak, which had reached five...
Miller has played the role of the democratic leader to the hilt, and perhaps to his own detriment. His aides have won the costliest contract (for the operators) in the union's history, provisions guaranteeing miners the right to withdraw from mines they feel are unsafe, pensions of $600 a month, and pay raises of 18 per cent that are a start in alleviating the lapses of the last 40 years, when coal miners fell behind other skilled union members in pay, benefits and everything else...
...show is not all that exciting. 90-minute monologues, which is essentially what Beckett has to offer, are hard to make theatrically charging and this production at the Loeb does not meet the challenge The play has its comic moments, which director George Hamlin exploits to the hilt, but it is also awfully depressing--making it all the more painful to watch...