Word: ruralism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take, for example, her contribution to the film's most heart-wrenching scene, that of Eleni's execution. Silhouetted against the jagged cliffs of rural Greece, Nelligan as Eleni stands erect in front of a makeshift firing line. In sharp contrast to her fellow "criminals" she looks her murderers directly in the eye. As the riflists take aim, she throws her arms up in a gesture of defiance, glances heavenwards, and shrieks "My childrr...
...paragons were educated brutes with Titians, like a few of their modern counterparts? Or that their ideology of cultural property was underwritten by their power to hang men for poaching a stag or breaking down an ornamental shrub? Or even that England, particularly from the Civil War to the rural riots of the 1830s, was by no means the serene garden of precedence and patronage suggested by the masterpieces of Gainsborough or Robert Adam...
...popular priest in a small rural community, Gauthe, 40, admitted having sodomized and otherwise abused at least 35 children entrusted to his care. Last week's sentencing followed a plea-bargaining arrangement involving all of % the parents, which was undertaken to spare Gauthe's victims the trauma of testifying. But the case is not over. The diocese of Lafayette and its insurers have paid $4.9 million to settle eleven civil suits filed by the families, and ten more are pending...
...assure a maximum turnout, the authorities banned liquor sales a day before the voting, rescheduled soccer matches and postponed a popular television soap opera until five minutes after the polls had closed. In rural areas, entire villages, in a swirl of colorful peasant costumes, dutifully trooped to local election halls behind brass bands. In the northwestern hamlet of Szczecinek, voting was temporarily disrupted when a woman gave birth to a healthy son beside the ballot box. In Walesa's hometown of Gdansk, 3,000 people marched through the streets carrying a banner that proclaimed...
...Reagan was elected by rural and suburban interests who have no interest in the problems of cities," Duehay said...