Word: land
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the very first, Boy Wille keeps at Berneice. He wants to sell "his half" of the piano to buy some land, since "land's the only thing God ain't making more of." But Berneice wants to cling to her family heritage and never to forget the struggles that came along with the piano. As brother and sister struggle over the piano, Wilson brings out the conflict between wanting to remember old grudges and assimilating with whites, who are "hard to figure out sometimes...
Jean de Florette, set in the 1920s, described the attempt of the clever Papet (Yves Montand) and his dim-witted nephew Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil)--the last remaining members of what used to be the richest and most glorious family in the region--to wrest the land of a neighboring farmer, a hunchback...
They do this by blocking the secret source of the spring that waters his fields. Although they intend to drive him away from the land, they end up killing...
Some days later the Lampy's castle, which had once aimed its sphinx-like gaze down Mt. Auburn St. without obstruction, suddenly acquired a tree in front of its main portal. The arboreal eyesore stood on a scrap of city-owned land between Mt. Auburn and Bow Streets...
...will cut all their trees and all their landscape after confiscating their land by police force if necessary," the freshman lawmaker declared...