Word: nakedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Antonia Moreno was getting her husband Rafael, a warehouse janitor, off to work. "The earth shook and we heard thunder," she recalled. "We could see flames all over the sky and a lot of black smoke." The couple fled with two of their children (two others were spending the night...
Hidden in all of this, embedded and often engulfing her narrative, Lurie reveals her own love of writing, an old-fashioned and well-honed gift for the clever phrase and the apt insight. "To take off all your clothes and lie down beside some unclothed larger person is a terribly...
The wind whipped across the dry, brown plains, and a man, naked in his hole save for a flea-infested blanket, died. So too did an old woman covered with flies. A man named Abigurney, who had already lost three children, was asked how many had died in his village...
Feed the hungry. Clothe the naked. Shelter the homeless. With such biblical exhortations in mind, five U.S. Roman Catholic bishops have been examining American capitalism since 1981 to see how well it conforms to their church's social teaching. In Washington last week the group presented its long-awaited...
Posthumous disclosures about Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) have proceeded like a striptease in reverse. First came the Diaries (published in the U.S. in 1976), a revealing look at Waugh's private, sometimes drunken and usually unflattering thoughts about his contemporaries. Next arrived the Letters (1980), in which the writer...