Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mandala, where he buries his worldliness in stylized cemeteries showing scenes of torture and immolation. Four godlings representing the cardinal compass points help him purge external reality. At the center Mahakala waits, clutching ritual symbols of self-annihilation: a skull bowl brimming with frothy blood and a chopping knife...
...learned Portia, disguised as a lawyer defending Antonio, offers a remedy in her "quality of mercy" speech-the unfolding principle of equity, which the English courts were more and more applying in Shakespeare's day to ease cases of special hardship. As Shylock stands over Antonio, knife in hand, Portia says...
...Orestes which becomes sardonic and satirical. When Appollo arises to save the assembled from destruction in the burning house of Atreum, the deus ex machina is not a convention but a joke; it's almost as if the Glorious Messenger has come to the rescue of Mack the Knife. The disparity between real and ideal which is developed throughout, the absence of any solution to the general corruption, is neatly brought home by Guzzetti's staging of a totally unconvincing resolution...
Under the Knife. De Gaulle had known since December that he needed the operation, but kept silent and refused to change plans for his Mexico trip. One day last week he tape-recorded a 17-minute TV speech. When the speech was broadcast that same evening, De Gaulle watched himself, seemingly vigorous as ever, calling the U.S. an "uncertain" ally and proclaiming once more France's need for an independent nuclear deterrent and its own costly program of foreign aid to underdeveloped nations. Then, with Madame de Gaulle, he was driven without escort through the dark and rain-washed...
Rumor that De Gaulle was under the knife sped through Paris and the world the next morning. The staff at the Elysee Palace, De Gaulle's official residence, refused for hours either to confirm or deny the story; they may not have known the truth themselves, for the chef prepared the presidential lunch as usual. Stock prices tumbled, then recovered, on the Paris Bourse...