Word: moor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Japan. To get the best possible photographs for his present work,* he mounted flimsy scaffolds in Moorish mosques, prowled the chill cellars of El Escorial, and nestled in the niches of the Prado. One of the most fascinating chapters of the book depicts the 800-year-long confrontation of Moor and Christian (see color pages), a conflict that forged the Spanish spirit, united a nation and changed Spain's art forever...
...whimpering and protests were alleged by the prosecution to be a recording of the last moments in Lesley's life. Also among Brady's belongings were nude photographs of the little girl. Police also found a picture of Myra on the very spot on the moor where police dug up the body of John Kilbride...
Bundled Body. Hefting the ax with which Ian Brady had allegedly hacked a victim to death, Attorney General Sir Elwyn Jones opened the prosecution's case by recounting how the police had unraveled what the press has called "the Moor Murders." The break came, he said, when the two defendants staged a murder to impress David Smith, 19, Myra's brother-in-law, who had doubted Brady's boasts about his thrill killings. After witnessing the murder, Smith rushed home to his wife, then called the police. They searched the house that Ian and Myra shared...
...defendants: Ian Brady, 28, a skinny stock clerk, and his blonde mistress, Myra Hindley, 23, a shorthand typist. Both pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering a 17-year-old youth and two children whose bodies were exhumed late last year from shallow graves on the desolate Saddleworth moor near Manchester...
OTHELLO. Sir Laurence Olivier, in sometimes distracting blackface, plays Shakespeare's Moor as a one-man show...