Word: reddening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...currently estranged from her third husband, but not to the point of refusing him occasional access to her favors. Felicita and Soledad, two other daughters of Fernanda's, are whores. They are also good mothers, although somewhat unconventional: the lullabies that soothe Felicita's children would redden a longshoreman's ears. Fernanda's only son, Simplicio, 21, ran away from home at six and became a father...
...organ, all the significant moments of Michelangelo's ordeal are painstakingly recreated. His inspiration for the Sistine vault occurs on a mountain-top at sunrise in exquisitely detailed cumulus clouds. He rushes to a battlefield where Julius marvels at Michelangelo's preliminary sketches while enemy cannon balls redden the earth around them. "I planned a ceiling, he plans a miracle," declares the Holy Father, then to his troops: "What are you waiting for? Attack!" And Agony skirts the question of the artist's homosexuality in provocative tête-à-têtes with a fervent Contessina...
Ever since he wrote the opinion in the 1954 school case, the mere mention of Chief Justice Earl Warren has been enough to redden the neck of any good segregationist. When Warren agreed to speak last week in Atlanta at Georgia Tech, authorities began preparing for trouble...
...They were first shown under tartan skirts for college girls, and bought not as particularly proper but as overwhelmingly practical. No girdle or garter belt was needed, and no longer were knees, neglected between the long socks' end and the slip's beginning, left bare to redden in the cold; slips, in fact, might be completely forgotten, too, as the long tights were warmer and less bulky. But tights remained off limits off campus. Not so, of course, for beatniks, whose heavy black turtleneck sweaters had never looked particularly go with white tennis socks and who instantly seized...
...novel deliberately omits the development of individual characters in favor of the character of the war itself. The hero is the unknown soldier, alive. Little is given but his name (Gilbert Freeman), rank (second lieutenant) and serial number. But when the 155-mm. guns of his artillery unit redden the night "with their long barrels sliding, howling, slashing the black air with smears of flame," the war he lives through becomes altogether real. And what saves Mitchell Goodman's war from being just a long grisly metaphor is that, despite its absence of individual identification, he successfully turns...