Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crawled off his tongue and vanished into sunlight...
...story of Barabbas where the Bible lets it end. Flung from his cell by soldiers, the brutish criminal (Anthony Quinn) reels against the whipping post where Christ has just been scourged; when he rises to his feet his hands are covered with Christ's blood. Flung into the sunlight, he stands blinking at a young man in white robes; is it merely the unaccustomed light that dazzles his eyes, or does he really see a radiance streaming from the young man's face? As he stares, strangely moved, he stumbles against a big wooden cross, which almost falls...
...first headaches, bargain hunters in the slave markets of Rome submitted prospective purchases to a trial as nerve-racking as watching a badly adjusted picture tube. Before a slave was bought and paid for, he was forced to stare at a potter's wheel rotating rapidly in bright sunlight. If the flicker caused the slave to keel over, the deal was off. Seizures before the spinning potter's wheel were taken as a sign of "the falling sickness," the Roman name for epilepsy...
...palace that Architects Benjamin Brown and Spero Daltas designed for the Shah's younger sister, Fatemeh, is walled in travertine, teakwood and glass, and alive with water and sunlight. But the most striking feature is the roof. Columns formed by eight 2-in. steel tubes rise and fan out to support octagonal canopies of glazed brick, interspersed here and there with clear glass skylights...
When she comes out into the sunlight again, he gives her his gift, his drawing...