Word: tunics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael's young daughter knocks cautiously on the door. She has come to empty her father's wastebasket; it is a break from school, which she attends downstairs along with 29 other born-again children. Red tie, blue tunic, white shirt. Michael watches her leave and talks about the government's efforts to condemn the Christian dayschool movement on charges of unqualified teachers and unfit teaching facilties. He mentions the 214 fire alarms Medford Public School endured over a one-year period. Earlier, it was eight years; by the end of the conversation, it has become eight months...
Lock had played a moderating influence from the beginning, telling his captors: "Look, if you start shooting people, if you kill even one of us, you know you will have no chance after that, don't you?" Lock wore his policeman's tunic throughout the siege, and even put on his hat when he spoke to his superiors through the embassy windows. The reason for Lock's formality: his .38-cal. revolver was hidden beneath the tunic. Lock told the other two British captives about the gun, but felt that if he tried...
...soon as the two women are asleep, snoring and snorting, a little man toddles up to center stage and sings. "Look at me. Tell me what you see." His two short legs in pink tights stick out of a black velvet tunic. This little man, Don Octave (Matt Olivia), is Donna Ribalda's abductor and brother. For all his pink flakiness, the Spanish gypsy lady adores...