Word: lord
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIRECTOR NEIL JORDAN sees the world through weird-colored lenses. His new film. The Company of Wolves, reels off variations on the Red Riding Hood theme developed with imaginative cittematic flourishes but little psychological subtlety. The result is something of a cross between the Lord of the Rings and Garcia-Marquez, but without the characterizing felicity of Realismo Magico...
...laws of the 1700s got more intricate, but no more liberal. God-fearing schollars prepared for the Lord's day early, having to stay in on Saturday nights (of course Ye Olde Picadillie Fillie had not been built) and never forgetting to give thanks before leaving the dining hall...
...author of more than 14 volumes, including some prose works, Rich won the 1974 National Book Award for the Wreek. Refusing to accept the award as an individual, she co-accepted with poet Audre Lord in the name of all women...
...flyblown chapel of bedrock fundamentalism that would hear him out. Now and then, you would catch him in the papers (requiem for a heavyweight, that sort of thing), but for the most part the fighter kept his head down. Four years ago, he erected the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, twelve pews in a little metal prefabricated building on an acre of Houston ground. The church will seat 50, but capacity has never been reached. It does not matter, though, the giant whispers tenderly. "This is the only thing I've ever done that I really did with...
...when the swelling goes down," Foreman wrote in his journal. Then he took his rage to Toronto, where he whipped five fighters in one evening. In 1976 he savaged Joe Frazier again, all but beating his own chest and roaring over the body. Until the night he found the Lord, March 17, 1977, the only things in the world he feared were mice and lizards...