Search Details

Word: prisons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

While he was in prison, Ortega and Rosario Murillo, one of the leading poets in the Sandinista movement, exchanged poems. (Poetry is a national passion in Nicaragua.) Murillo, who was educated in a British convent school, helped Ortega stay in contact with other prisoners and the outside world. She later became his common-law wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Behind the Designer Glasses | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...York City in 1955. He staged a revival of Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending and became a friend and protege of Williams', and later of Robert Penn Warren's and William Styron's. Much of his work has been literary adaptation. His stage version of Jack Henry Abbott's prison memoir In the Belly of the Beast was taken up last year by theaters in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Man for Parallel Seasons | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...that served as a set for the television series Gilligan's Island. That bears exploration. The others could join him. There is something to be said for Alcatraz, which shut down its penitentiary 23 years ago. It is secure. The decorators responsible for Caesar's Palace might redo the prison in red velvet flocking and gilt. Still, the island is small, the night air chilly and the foghorns mournful. Strongmen from sunnier latitudes might find themselves depressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Island of the Lost Autocrats | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...better choice perhaps would be the Dry Tortugas, just below the Florida Keys. Once a haven for pirates, an old prison island surrounded by shipwrecks, by sharks and barracuda and stingrays and poisonous fantasies of treasure, the place shimmers with the right sunny-sinister atmospherics for the brotherhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Island of the Lost Autocrats | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...wife, Jiang Qing, had the young poet beaten and thrown into prison for his temerity. While he was in jail, Chen continued to write poems, one of which--a eulogy for Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi, who died in 1972--also found its way into a collection of Mao's works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Quotations of Chairman Chen | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

Previous | 165 | 166 | 167 | 168 | 169 | 170 | 171 | 172 | 173 | 174 | 175 | 176 | 177 | 178 | 179 | 180 | 181 | 182 | 183 | 184 | 185 | Next