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...their leaders. Marat is killed as an act of ritual murder (primitive societies sacrifice their great man) and as an act of political punishment (his integrity is in question, his hubris at fault). But Marat/Sade is a play without plot (for the slaying could be done in a trice) and without characters (who are all insane and presumably characterless, obsession taking the place of personality). It is a protracted spectacle...

Author: By Stuart A. Davis, | Title: Marat/Sade | 10/29/1966 | See Source »

Graham kicked seven field goals, getting four with his instep and three others with straight-on too kicks. Graham also scored the Crimson's other two points, as he stopped Dudley Bonnington III, the Princetonian's bearded quarterback, in the and zone for a safety. Bennington trice and Graham got his too on him with a feet-first leap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Victory | 11/8/1965 | See Source »

...inexperienced guard turned his back, and in a trice the 6-ft. Finnish prisoner was gone, lost in the foliage of London's Regent's Park. Though an official spokesman insisted "he's not dangerous," all London was alarmed, and telephone switchboards were soon jammed by the tipsters and the fearful. Gawkers flocked to the park by the thousands as the dragnet began to tighten. Radio trucks and prowl cars moved in, and giant searchlights were brought up to illuminate the park at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Flying Symbol | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

Columbus: COFO volunteer Clifford Trice fined $50 in court today, plus costs...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: A Typical Week in Mississippi: COFO Hears of Many Incidents | 10/7/1964 | See Source »

...Seligmannikins flattened more and more onto the surface of his canvases. Yet they retained the energy of existence, as if held up by ballooning lungs filled with air. Man's presence in the paintings was as ephemeral as life itself. The figures might exhale abruptly, and in a trice all would collapse like empty clothes falling to a closet floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dance Without the Dancer | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

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