Word: interring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story, going all the way back to Tom Molineaux, the prima inter pares of the American slave gladiators, who became the country's first heavyweight champion. Born on a Virginia plantation, Molineaux fought against the prime "black bucks" from other plantations while the masters wagered high stakes on the outcome. After he had beaten all comers and therefore was no longer of use to his master, Molineaux was given his freedom. He moved to New York and became the premier boxer on the Waterfront. Exhausting American competition, Molineaux then went to England to take on the English champion, Tom Cribb...
South House came out victorious for the first time even in the inter-house meet, scoring 60 points to 46 for North House, and 36 for Currier...
PROBABLY the most important early influences on Brazilian directors of the Cinema Novo movement, Rocha has commented, were the films and theoretical writings of Sergei Eisenstein and especially his concept of dialectical montage. This inter-cutting of images as "shocks" provides a language for expressing abstractly the confrontations between abstract forces of history, constructed into a coherent whole, an "agit-guinol" by the director, who intends to achieve a specific effect for the audience, which remains essentially passive. Rocha modifies this concept in developing the dialectical shot, in which each element-each character, myth, power-figure-comes into conflict with...
WILLIAMSTOWN, March 5-All six Harvard players advanced to the quarterfinals of the Inter-Collegiate Squash Championship at Williams College this afternoon...
...part," Chomsky said, "this is a training operation for a new Foreign Legion, an inter-Asian force of mercenaries able to operate in areas pulverized by American air power just before they begin...