Word: lurked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...participate in the violence they have been watching for the past three hours and humiliate the enemy even more. And it is when The Game--or any other game--means more than the contest of skill and strategy it was designed to be that violence and ulterior motives lurk...
...situations but the characters in them who seize our imaginations; beneath everyday exteriors lurk haunting, explosive desires. Robert Taylor Jr.'s "Colorado" reminds us of the extraordinary, doomed needs of early adolescence...
...that sobering skull, the play, staged as it is in late July, reminds us that--both literally and figuratively--glorious summer will quickly fade to autumn and winter. O'Neill lets us know that even while comedy and music, sunshine and song still cast their spell, death and decay lurk inevitably in the shadows. They need simply wait...
...reader is free to choose at which level he wishes to enter the game and play along. The book can be read simply as a good mystery story, but a more inquiring mind (or pretentious intellect, as the case may be) can seek out the philosophical debates which lurk beneath the surface or track down the many parallels to modern life...
...that would refute this dispiriting wisdom. Everything about the place offends and frightens her. Fear and loathing seem to have been part of her carry-on baggage. At the airport, her papers are checked in "a thicket of automatic weapons." Cherokee Chiefs, synonymous with family fun in the States, lurk about as the preferred vehicles of death squads that "disappear" people suspected of guerrilla activities or sympathies. She visits the body dumps of El Playon and Puerta del Diablo, where many of the disappeared turn up dead and disfigured. She peeks into the tallies of the weekly "grim-grams" that...