Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is Uncle Claudius," says Hamlet. "He is hiding behind the curtain. Why is he hiding behind the curtain? Shall I stab him? What fun it would be to stab him through the curtain." See Hamlet draw his sword. See Hamlet stab. Stab, Hamlet, Stab. See Uncle Claudius' blood. See Uncle Claudius' blood gushing. Gush, Blood, Gush. See Uncle Claudius fall. How funny he looks, stabbed...
...cash frequently led to his losing it. The cops sometimes found money in the secondhand cars that Newsboy kept stashed around the city-and invariably Newsboy had to disclaim ownership of the money to avoid explaining where it came from. Once he turned up at a hospital bleeding from stab wounds, and the police discovered $3,000 in his car. Said Newsboy: "I never saw it before." Again, he was picked up on the street near an auto that yielded $11,000. Newsboy said it wasn't his. Federal tax agents found $49,000 in his home-and still...
...their villages and resuming the role of ignorant peasants who have seen nothing and heard nothing. The regional troops remain long enough to cover the withdrawal by ambushing rescue columns, mining the roads, littering the jungle trails and footpaths with concealed and deadly panjis-sharpened, poisoned bamboo spikes that stab through the soles of unwary pursuers...
True, the Sox committed two errors yesterday, but the fielders had it in the clutch, and, as is popularly stated, if you haven't got it there, you haven't got it. Schilling, for instance, pulled a rock in the middle innings, but came up with a great stab and throw on Willie Tasby in the tense ninth frame...
Billy Jim Layton's String Quartet in Two Movements is a more complex and venturesome work. Moevs's lines are always aware of their direction; Layton's stab this way and that and hover with despairing trills and tremulos through long, stirring passages of static progression. The brutality of the quartet's chords and textures is not only searing but tormented: their writhing raises questions quite beyond Moevs's solid ideas. To call this powerful expression "romantic" is meaningless; only the term introspection recognizes the heaviness of the music's human implications...