Word: hoisting
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...redemption. When Portia confounds Shylock by allowing him his pound of flesh but condemning him to death if an iota of blood be spilled in its excision, the reaction of the Venetians is such that it seems a cheap trick rather than a masterly example of a literalist hoist on his own petard. At this point Graziano alone expresses the vulgar view of what is going on; his taunts are, significantly, not echoed by anyone else. Yet here their silence condemns the bystanders; and the final touch to the mishandling of the scene comes when the Duke pronounces his pardon...
...assignment was to try to "portray the real girls journalistically, not stylistically." In his quest for the genuine, he sometimes found unusual props or received unexpected help. Spanish Heiress Carmen Ordóñez de Rivera blossomed while swinging from-of all things-a block and tackle used to hoist bulls into her father's ring for a corrida. Actress Tessa Dahl's radiant smile came while shooting in London's Hyde Park, when Tessa looked past Dirck and saw a dog in the act of mistaking his camera bag for a fireplug...
Among the left-wing Laborites who defied Wilson on the Market issue, Industry Minister Anthony Wedgwood Benn stands in greatest danger of being hoist with his own petard. It was Benn who in 1972 first proposed the Common Market referendum. At the time, opinion polls were reporting a solid 2-to-1 antiMarket majority. Benn saw the referendum as an ideal vehicle to propel himself into leadership of a populist left-wing movement that would assert its supremacy over the pro-Market establishment in the Labor Party. With the help of enormous and largely hostile press publicity, he turned...
Works of Brahms, Berg, Berwald, and Hoist; the BSO Chamber Players; Sanders Theater...
...most conventional but lucky childhood. His father was a successful Manhattan lace importer who took the boy along on business trips to Europe. Carter foraged music shops in Vienna and Paris for Schoenberg and Stravinsky scores. Then came Harvard, where, save for Walter Piston and the visiting Gustav Hoist, "the teachers didn't like and didn't really understand one single thing about contemporary music...