Word: shawl
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...turned up so many discrepancies that he branded Schliemann a "pathological liar" who invented events in his diaries and books or appropriated them from other people's lives. The discovery of Priam's Treasure was evidently one more such invention. Schliemann wrote that he slipped the objects into the shawl of his second wife, Sophia, to hide them from larceny-minded laborers. According to his field notes, it didn't happen that way at all. Besides, Sophia was in Greece at the time...
...victim said the assailant was wrapped in a black shawl so that he could hardly see her face, said Jason J. Jay '99, who was in the Coop with Gutwein...
Ozick, whose short story "The Shawl" is read in many Expository Writing courses, read from "Puttermesser Creates a Golem," one of a series of stories featuring her heroine Ruth Puttermesser...
David Mamet divides his one act play "The Shawl" into three scenes. This structure allows Mamet to play the audience, dangling pieces of knowlege in front of certain characters, then showing the fraudulent nature of what we thought was fact. Soon no one, including the characters, know what is or what is not true. It sounds complicated, but the way he does it is by having one character, John (played tremendously by Bill Donnelly) as a crackpot psychic who is, or maybe he isn't, aware of the fraudulent nature of his powers. He is being goaded by Charles (Michael...
...character, it is not made certain until Charles threatens to leave John if he does not swindle the money out of Miss A. I have faith, after having seen Stone in many production, that he will gradually fit into the character of Charles. I saw "The Shawl" on the second night it was open and I am sure after a week of performances, his character will be on target...