Word: marita
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some Black directors and actors held their own this year. Tim Benston '89 directed a high-profile production of Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prizewinning A Soldier's Play on the coveted stage of the Agassiz Theatre. And Walker directed On Being Young, a Woman, and Black: The Works of Marita Bonner Occomy ['22], also at the Agassiz...
Autobiographical essays, like the one by fiction writer Marita O. Bonner, "On Being Young and Colored," reveal a special and personal insight into the evolving Black experience across the barriers of time and prejudice...
...join her in getting matching short haircuts and a platinum-blond dye job. (Hemingway fans may recall that the Catherine of A Farewell to Arms also suggests twin coiffures but without the bleach.) Eventually, Catherine comes out of the closet on the arm of the dark, lovely and rich Marita...
...things truly wicked start from innocence," Hemingway once wrote. Adam and Eve got the message late, and so do David and Catherine. Her kittenish antics turn savage. She thrusts Marita and her husband together with predictable consequences and then strikes out at both of them. The situation is somewhat similar to the time Hemingway and his first wife Hadley spent a summer living with Pauline Pfeiffer, a Paris Vogue editor who was to become the second Mrs. Hemingway. Yet Catherine shares some of her most unbecoming characteristics with Zelda Fitzgerald, the envious and unbalanced wife of Hemingway...
...hours, Irish air force planes and naval vessels had been keeping a close watch over the trawler Marita Anne. Finally, off the southwest coast of Ireland, two Irish navy corvettes, the Emer and Aisling, closed in on the 50-ft. vessel, firing four rounds of tracer bullets across its bows. On board, Irish authorities found seven tons of arms. The weaponry was apparently destined for the Irish Republican Army, the terrorist group that seeks to unite British-ruled Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic. Police arrested five men aboard the Marita Anne, including two believed to be I.R. A. members...