Word: threads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Khrushchev report confirmed truths about Stalinism that Gornick believes many Communists and sympathizers already suspected but could not face. For her, the 20th Congress Report "snapped the last thread in a fabric of belief that was already worn to near disintegration." As a feminist 15 years later, she watched closely as consciousness succumbed to rigid rhetoric. But for Gornick, the knowledge that "dogma was the kiss of death for all thought" was cathartic. At long last, she forgave the Communists for their mistakes and began again to love them for their passion...
This maneuver requires 20 stitches with thread finer than a human hair and barely visible to the naked...
...many ex-fighters work with children after retirement. Perhaps it is a means of staying close to the incandescence of their youth. Or perhaps it is an impulse to pass on that special strength forged in fighting, man's first competition. Ali tells how his daughter tried to thread a needle for several minutes, then gave up in frustration. "I spanked her and made her try again. It wasn't important for her to thread the needle, but it was important to wash away the taste of defeat. She had to learn she could not fail...
Fine fed Banks with a backdoor pass for a three-point play that kept the Quakers holding on by a thread, 71-70. Booker hit a foul shot to tie it at 71 apiece. For the next six minutes the score tipped back and forth deadlocked as both teams traded roundhouses in the closing donnybrook...
...reasons Survival is so effective is that Workshop '71 has obviously experimented with a number of dramatic techniques. Survival is more like a collage than a narrative play, with a political thread tying it together instead of a plotline. It works, far better than one could have expected. Survival constantly shifts its focus, requiring the audience to stay involved with the play as a whole...