Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...here The Sacrifice strips gears and revs into a kind of controlled delirium. It embraces elements of old-dark-house melodramas (a creaking door, a dead phone) and French farce (Alexander sneaking down a ladder for a late- night tryst). Yes, the end of any world, even this desiccated one, can be both spooky and funny. And so is Alexander's unshakable belief, stoked by Otto, that the fate of the planet depends on his "lying with" the ethereal Maria. Is she Eve or Lilith, Mary or Mary Magdalene? Or just a maid who understands that even a dotty master...
Elsewhere on the courts of The Park Avenue and The Princeton Squash clubs, the Crimson demonstrated the strength of its ladder. "The fact that we had more participants [eight] than any other school," Holleran said, "shows our high level of depth and commitment...
...schools but feels she has slipped into the lower class. A single parent, she supports two daughters, ages 16 and 19, and a 3-year-old grandchild. "I surely don't feel like I'm middle class," she , says. "I feel like we're at the bottom of the ladder...
Nothing quite compares to the feeling of walking over the ground strewn with apples. The sound of apples crushing underneath your feet as you walk up to a tree and start pulling off one Red Delicious after another, a red ladder (probably planted there by the orchard owner to make it look more quaint) leaning against an apple tree, lugging half a bushel of apples back...
...climbed up the ladder, but it wasn't sturdy enough. (Further proof that it really was put there for quaintness). She pulled branches down to snag the best apples. She picked them off the ground. She tossed them at the two of us who weren't quite as interested in apples as she. But we caught them and added them to the bulging paper sack we had picked up from the owner of the orchard...