Word: patching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another tradesman to go from door to door is the coal-ball man. At each house he digs up a little patch of earth in the courtyard, mixes in some coal dust and water and then spreads out the resulting paste and cuts it into squares with his hoe. The squares are then tumbled around in a big basket, until the corners are knocked off by the rim of the basket. These coal balls burn very slowly, and of course represent a great saving in coal, since half is just mud to hold the heat...
...extending power, he also knows that at $2 million a day he is spending less than two per cent of the annual military budget on Vietnam. Will history blame him for the cruelty of the war in Vietnam, or blame him for not understanding the strategic importance of a patch of fertile rice paddies on the other side of the globe? That is Johnson's quandry...
What is the point of a stagehand appearing in the middle of aria who paints the same white patch of scenery she painted in the last scene, again with a dry red brush? If the cast has to flirt with the crew, couldn't they be more convincing--and remember their infatuations in the next...
...wasn't working. His own performance is suitably ironic, suitably loud. But he never builds to any turning point. It is easy to miss some of his crucial lines. If Williams meant Danton to seem to be playing a role, he almost succeeded. But he never gives us a patch of sincerity to contrast the act with. Even in the lovely prison soliloquy, Danton's character remains ambiguous...
Jimmie Lee Jackson was a $6-a-day Negro woodcutter who lived with his mother, his sister and his grandfather on a patch of red-clay soil outside Marion, Ala. One night last month Jackson, 26, joined a Negro demonstration in Marion. When cops began breaking it up, he and some other Negroes sought refuge in a cafe. State police went in after them. In the melee Jackson was shot in the stomach, and died eight days later...