Word: scars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assault. Rhetorical defects plague his work. But its aim-which is to use the human figure as a unique metaphor for a sense of crisis and cultural exhaustion-is large; and at their best, as in Burnt Man IV, 1961, Golub's stiff monsters become monuments of scar tissue, celebrating man's minimal function: to survive...
...typical Tartan gang member is Jim Tipping, a long-haired lad of 18 who has a crest of Protestant banners tattooed upon his scarred right arm. The scar is a relic of an I.R.A. gunshot wound that Tipping suffered while walking down a Belfast street six weeks ago. Tipping's gang, the Shankhill Tartans, has hundreds of members, who spend much of their time lolling on street corners and shouting anti-Catholic slogans on Saturday afternoons. They were reared in an atmosphere of sectarian bitterness and bigotry, and their attitudes show it. "I hate them," Tipping says...
...some kind of joke-white folks think I'm black and black folks think I'm white." Powell sought to confirm his blackness in his book Marching Blacks, published in 1945. He expressed pride in his runaway-slave grandfather who in his late years still bore a scar inflicted by an angry slave owner. Powell's father came to New York City in 1908-the year Adam Jr. was born-to take the pastorship of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, which he helped build to a membership of 14,000, one of the largest Protestant congregations...
...first admitted to a 120-bed reception center operated by the International Rescue Committee, where they spend weeks building up their strength for surgery. From there, they are moved to the 54-bed Barsky Unit for their operations. Doctors at the center perform 150 operations a month, trimming away scar tissue that has immobilized joints, reconstructing faces ruined by shrapnel or napalm, and fitting maimed children with artificial limbs...
...stands alone before the visitors' table, looking down with defiant, dark eyes. He is a big man, with broad shoulders, hard features, shaved Muslim head hidden by a blue stocking cap. A dark scar runs from his left cheek to his ear, from a "cutting" two years ago. His rust-colored cardigan is open and reveals a ring on a brass chain. Satisfied with the press card, he says, "They look for excuses to play with me. I try not to give them...