Word: roping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second try, the anxious assassins pulled too soon-before the noose had fallen completely over Resnick's head. The rope caught the bridge of his nose, ripping the skin. Resnick pulled it down across his throat, and as the killers pulled once more, he emitted a short gasp. For more than three minutes, the young men heaved like draft horses before finally relaxing their grip on the rope. Resnick's body slumped face-down on the sand. Jackie Spurlock, 29, quickly removed two rings from the dead man's fingers, methodically went through his pockets. The haul...
...Negroes pulled an 18-ft. length of manila rope from the car and looped it in a single strand around Resnick's neck. The four took positions next to the doomed man-two on each side-and yanked the rope hard in opposite directions. The rope snapped, and Resnick fell backward to the ground. "Let me show you how to do it," he muttered. He tied the rope together in a neat knot, doubled it, and handed it to one of the young men. "Do a good job." he said, dropping to his knees...
...Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. On a Mexican veranda, four people who have come to the frayed rope-end of life find the strength to go on. In its acceptance of human limitations, this is Williams' wisest play. As drama, it is possibly his best play since A Streetcar Named Desire...
...well. Because the remnants of old fears and frustrations are expressed as visual symbols, it becomes difficult to distinguish the young man's dreams from his present reality. Across from his rooming house is a playground of his nightmare, the same voices of children, the same little girls jumping rope. Even the daughter of the woman he loves bears a striking resemblance to his former victim. This is so convincing that the man although both are rationally aware that all the audience itself adopts the distorted viewpoint of the similarities are imagined...
...Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. The veranda of the Costa Verde Hotel is bare, but it steams with heat. It is like a raft in the green sea of the Mexican jungle, a vision of the end of the world for people at the end of their rope. Gradually, a quartet of life's castaways assembles. Maxine Faulk (Bette Davis) is the recently widowed proprietor of the hotel, a spitfire sensualist who regards her unbuttoned-to-the-waist body as her soul. T. Lawrence Shannon (Patrick O'Neal) is an alcoholic, defrocked minister who herds lady...