Word: semicolons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the completion of Belle de Jour in 1966, Luis Buñuel Delphically announced: "No more cinema for me-not in Spain, not in France, nowhere. Belle de Jour is my last film, semicolon...
...already convicted him of, Partch sat down at Harmonic Canon II and began to play, aided by a disciple who had flown down from Tacoma, Wash., for the occasion. "You exclamation-point Jim," Partch chanted to the rhythm of the Surrogate Kithara's ponderous clucks, "get your semicolon asterisk out o this yard." It was music the likes of which few in the audience had heard before, but it forced upon everyone in the Palace a new and respectful opinion of Harry Partch: Harry may be nuts but Harry isn't kidding...
...cannot write grammatically," says Martin proudly, "I can think, talk and feel like other men. I never learned the rules of punctuation any farther than just to assist in fixing a comma to the British depredations in the state of New York; a semicolon in New Jersey; a colon in Pennsylvania, and a final period in Virginia;-a note of interrogation, why we were made to suffer so much in so good and just a cause; and a note of admiration to all the world, that an army voluntarily engaged to serve their country, when starved and naked and suffering...