Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indigenas, this paucity of educational opportunity hardly eases the path toward the precious status of assimilado, which promises total equality with the whites for those who can speak Portuguese fluently and adopt European modes of life (i.e., live in a house instead of a hut, eat with a knife and fork instead of the fingers...
Brecht's most basic plot revisions are of the end of the movie. The gallows scene and reprieve are cut, and instead Mack the Knife escapes from jail and becomes the head of a prominent banking house which Polly has bought for him. He takes as partners Polly's father, old Peachum, the organizer of London's beggars, and Tiger Brown, who has been deposed as London's police chief. Both of these old criminals have been stripped of their respectability by an enormous demonstration put on by thousands of crippled beggars during Queen Victoria's coronation parade...
...talk to detectives, her husband was in a television studio, taping an interview with Mike Wallace. He did indeed plan to run for mayor of New York next year, he admitted-on an existentialist ticket. The problem of juvenile delinquency would not be solved by disarming young hoods: "The knife to a juvenile delinquent is very meaningful. You see, it's his sword -his manhood." A better solution would be to hold an annual gangland jousting tournament in Central Park, "which would bring back the Middle Ages." When Wallace noticed the mouse on his cheekbone. Mailer grinned...
...seemed like claptrap was in fact a pioneering concern with light-the same concern that the impressionists were to share almost a generation later. While other artists began even the sketchiest watercolor with a painstaking drawing, Turner worked swiftly and directly with color. He might use a sponge, a knife, a finger or a piece of bread to get the desired effect; he was perfectly willing to let form be nearly drowned in movement. Few men have ever captured so luminously the restless wave, the fleeting cloud, a gathering mist or a fading twilight...
...Appel, painting is "a battle." He pops his colors directly out of the tube, smears them around with fingers, palette knife, and occasionally a brush. "I am interested in force," says he, "not esthetics." When the heavy, screaming colors look curdled enough, Appel appends a title, Head in the Mountains, Smiling Grasshopper, Personage with Parrot. Where is the head, the grasshopper, the parrot, or the woman and the ostrich? "For me," Appel once explained, "painting is destroying what I have done before...