Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that initiated a spate of such images among the impressionists 20 years later, are drawn into the earth, their limbs and puffy faces asserting the heaviness of sleep. His trellised roses are inordinately fleshy; his apples, red and bruised -- no perfect objects of oral desire here -- are solid as stone. He painted hair, especially the thick curly tresses of Whistler's Irish mistress Jo Heffernan, as though he were running his fingers through...
They are the last of their ship to be hired, by the casually sadistic foreman of Stone Farm, which is both ironically and aptly named. Its holdings, bordering a wild, beautiful seacoast, are large and fertile; there is nothing stony about them. But its walled farmyard is like a prison; its heavy gates are locked each night, and workers are treated like convicts...
...Stone Farm is clearly a microcosm of the world, Eden after the fall. And Pelle must inevitably lose his innocence as he explores this ruined Paradise, but not his sense that there must be more to life than the evils that incessantly assault his eye, or his inarticulate hope of finding some new Jerusalem beyond his constricted horizon. This maintenance of faith is, indeed, his conquest. And it is given force and poignancy by its contrast with the defeat of his father's ever dwindling dreams...
...Mame (1958). But ever since lovable E.T. followed a line of Reese's Pieces to a record box-office gross in 1982 -- and & sales of the candy leaped 66% in three months -- film pitches have become a bustling field. Ray-Ban sent 500 pairs of sunglasses to director Oliver Stone for his new feature, Born on the 4th of July. A scene in Cocoon: The Return was reshot so that Quaker Instant Oatmeal could be displayed more prominently. Companies are now lined up around the block trying to get their backhoes, champagne, reclining chairs and running shoes into the movies...
Dazed survivors of Spitak last week began trying to rebuild their lives from what remained of the town: piles of stone and wood and shattered belongings. Men, their faces hairy with a week's growth of beard, aimlessly wandered streets littered with scraps of clothing, pieces of furniture and broken dishes. Women with colorful head scarves plodded along, carrying heavy bundles of clothing salvaged from the wreckage; some carried buckets of water from distribution trucks. Most people lived in military tents, but Manuel Lambaryan and seven friends stayed in a makeshift hut built from the beams of his crumpled house...