Word: roped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incredible was the collection of about 50 pages of rambling, diary-like notes describing a long series of real or imagined acts of murder, necrophilia, dismemberment and burial. One section told how the writer handcuffed and blindfolded an unidentified woman and then "executed" her by hanging. "I tied the rope to the bumper of the car so that if I pulled away it would pull out the ladder and she would be hanged immediately. I went back to the car and finished a bottle of wine. About 9 p.m., I started the car and put it in reverse. After...
Early in the morning, shoppers lined up behind a rope guarding the entrance to the ten-story building. At precisely 8:30, an attendant dropped the barrier, and the race was on. The buyers sprinted through the doorways for the elevators; some of the more vigorous bounded up stairways in an attempt to get ahead of the crowd. It was not a rush for cut-rate panty hose at a discount house; rather, it was the scene at this spring's version of the semiannual Canton Trade Fair, where Chinese traders showed off their wares to the largest collection...
WHITE SISTER, never certain whether to be a farce or a tearjerker, finally settles for being just absurd. Sophia Loren appears as the most ravishing nun in Eu rope; she gave her life to mother church after her boyfriend got deep-fried in an oil fire. She ministers to the sick and the infirm as head of an Italian hospital, which is riddled with both political strife and human tragedy. The movie is unrelentingly simpleminded, and treats all subjects from cardiac ar rests to brimming bedpans with a jovial mixture of high spirits, low comedy and bad taste. Loren breezes...
...income people were using substitutes and selective buying before the present spiral began, but now they are hanging at the end of the rope with no relief in sight. What we are being told is, if you cannot keep up with the price rise then lower your standard of living...
...treatment for Kasler's leg, better food and conditions if he would go before the July 4 delegation. "I refused. He ordered me back on my knees. My broken leg was still killing me. My arms were in irons behind my back. He worked on them with the rope for a while. Then he got a thin wire and wired my thumbs and hands together. He tortured me, working on the rope and wire and irons. After about 45 minutes I was punchy. But I found I had discovered a way to endure...