Word: obey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...void and solid, expressed in the façades of Villa Cornaro and Villa Malcontenta, subtly prepares the visitor for the less consciously felt proportions of the rooms within. For there was nothing improvised in Palladio. His plans-always axial, with lesser rooms grouped symmetrically around a high hall-obey stringent rules of harmony, not only in the three dimensions of each room, but in the relation of chambers one to another...
...order is set forth clearly in The U.S. Fighting Man's Code, which is issued to all U.S. servicemen. An American prisoner of war must "continue to resist by any means available," and "obey the lawful orders" of senior U.S. officers in the P.O.W. camp in which he finds himself imprisoned. Last week the senior officer at one of those camps in North Viet Nam, Air Force Colonel Theodore W. Guy, filed charges with the Defense Department calling for courts-martial of eight former P.O.W.s -none of them from the Air Force, and all enlisted...
...behalf of the revolution, committee members have grabbed citizens who are suspected of being Israeli agents, Communists or members of the outlawed right-wing Moslem Brotherhood, hauled them to the police and ordered them arrested. The police must obey, even without evidence of wrongdoing. So far, at least 150 people have been interned as a result of these citizens' arrests...
...nothing less than debunk every myth of American life. Top on his list is the notion of winning by fair play and sportsmanship. In a total inversion of those Boys Life inspirational stories, Roth tells of Gil Gamesh, a pitcher so great that he refuses to obey the rules...
Striptease is the best and also the shortest of the three plays. For unknown reasons, two strangers suddenly find themselves trapped in a single room, and in between rationalizing their behavior, they obey the directions of a gigantic hand, which gestures to them to remove their clothes. The gimmick alone is clever, and Mrozek, with a fine sense of the dramatic, skillfully brings out the contrast between the feeble human discussions and the powerful silence of the Hand...