Word: roped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some lucky kids will get to climb a bright yellow sheet of semielastic (plastic) Swiss cheese instead of a cold steel jungle gym when one Project '70 prototype is enlarged. And hip tykes shoud groove on a set of rope swings whose poma-lift type seats look like giant hot pink and dark purple onions. Should they fall, they won't have to hit hard macadam-Project '70 shows four-foot wide flooring dises of foam covered with black vinyl...
...examines the popular culture of this century, it becomes clear that one of its many elements does remain constant. That element is murder. Games and dance crazes come and go, but murder-and all its paraphernalia, guns and knives and rope-stays in style year after year. Remember Leopold and Loeb, Lizzie Borden, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the Lindberg kidnapping, Ma Barker, Bonnie and Clyde and Theodore Dreiser's American Tragedy? If not, how about Texas sniper Charles Whitman, Chicago nurse murderer Richard Speck, the Boston Strangler and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood...
...week long they bobbed and drifted with the slow currents of the Mekong River, a seemingly endless procession of floating death. They appeared singly at first, then in grotesque flotillas of as many as 50 bodies bound together by rope. After days of immersion in the brown waters of the Mekong and exposure to Cambodia's blazing sun, they were barely recognizable, but it was clear that the victims, mostly young men, were Vietnamese. They were slaughtered in what has suddenly turned into Southeast Asia's latest horror: a Cambodian pogrom against the country...
...clumsy hunter was publicly chastised by "blading," a ceremony in which he was forced to lie down across a dead stag and receive three swats from the flat of a broad knife. All the hard work was done by the peasants, who erected the high cloth barriers or rope nets into which bear or deer were driven. At dawn, the whole party set off, proceeding according to rank in carriages drawn by four or six horses. Beaters drove the game into the enclosures where the hunters waited in comfort. Nobody got any mud on his elegant boots. If the duke...
...several inches above the other, and his neck bobs back and forth as if a series of tiny explosions were occurring at the top of his spinal column. This invariably happens at moments of great stress, when the actor, not the character, has come to the end of his rope...