Word: starks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...witness recalls: "Being disarmed of sword, cane, hat and wig, he was genteelly tarred and feathered [until] he had more the appearance of the devil than any human being." Malcohn survived that mauling ?only to be trapped by another mob three months later. This time "he was stript stark naked, one of the severest cold nights this winter, his body covered all over with tar, then with feathers, his arm dislocated in tearing off his cloaths. Some beating him with clubs ... for about five hours...
George views the American Rebellion as an almost personal affront. There are no grays in his view, only stark blacks and whites, wrongs and rights. Over and over, he emphasizes that "those deluded people" have forgotten their duty, to him and to England. "Every means of distressing America must meet with my concurrence," he wrote Lord North last year, "as it tends to bringing them to feel the necessity of returning to their duty." He quoted to North with approval the opinion of Major General Frederick Haldimand, one of the government's leading experts on America, that "nothing...
...seemingly disparate elements are miraculously tied together with a triple knot. Kahn underlines this by having Time appear wordlessly in the first half bearing a barren branch, and in the second half bearing a green and, finally, a gold one. Miss Greenwood's costumes for Sicilia are stark white; for Bohemia they are brightly colored (and Conklin's hanging transparent tubes are lit with spring like green); and for the return to the indoor court in Sicilia, the white is mellowed with bits of gray. Thus, while the play is bipartite, it is simultaneously tripartite--somewhat analogously to the sonata...
Bill was almost screaming, his voice echoing up and down Barnard's stark halls, so I tried to quiet him down. I left him there, sitting wild-eyed in the hallway, counting the rings on the other end of the line (I'll let it go to 50 'cause she's probably right at some critical point.").-Bill was flipping out. Within a month he withdrew from school...
Seven black actress-dancers, costumed in solid colors with the stark simplicity of a Greek chorus, deliver dramatic monologues about being black, blue, and bruised by love. The tension of the evening stems from two separate strands of emotion. On the one hand, these monologues are portraits in embittered pain, the basic proposition being, "He done her wrong." On the other hand, they demonstrate the concentric power of love in a woman's life. If Playwright Shange had chosen an epigraph for her play, the one most suited to it is the one that in her militantly feminist...