Word: rope
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...only the century's most famous comedy bit; it's also the best. It's absurdism mixed with the easy pleasure of confusion, and Bud Abbott plays the perfect cool logician to Lou Costello's frustrated inquisitor in this Beckettian farce. RUNNERS-UP "Dead Parrot," Monty Python; "Rope Tricks," Will Rogers...
...unification of the Croatian people was not Tudjman's greatest achievement, then it was his walk on the tight rope between freedom and destruction. He did not lose the former, nor suffer the latter...
...Perhaps we need none if we look long enough. After observing the monochrome nuggets squashed together and suffocating Bleckners canvases, no one would be surprised to discover that he is the president of the Community Research Initiative on AIDS. The bubbles themselves look like knots tied on a rope, but condensed, without any space between them. Covering the entire surface of a canvas, they begin to look organic, slimy, alive; indeed, they look like cells. The use of transparent color to isolate certain groups of cells relates directly to AIDS; the identification of certain vessels indicates foreigners, intruders within...
Judas never thought of fleeing. The one choice left apparently was to beg his teacher's pardon and then use the rope. So he asked the final question of all: "You're Jesus, aren...
Judas said, "If you pardon me, help me leave then." He reached up and seized the rope in both hands. He'd need to climb the tree to make it work...