Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Then he provokes both sides to a pitched battle. Twenty or 30 men dead and the town in ruins. By hook or crook, trick or treat, the samurai assists the slaughter until, hilariously or horribly, everybody has eliminated everybody. With a grunt of solid satisfaction, the hero survevs the vacant village and declares: "Now we'll have a little quiet in this town." At this point, many customers will be wondering whether to laugh or scream. On second thoughts, most of them will decide to scream. Taken entire, Yojimbo is an appalling assault on the human animal...
...waited a year for an opportunity to join his sister in West Berlin. Because of his trade, he was allowed to work near the crumbling wall, and, with another 18-year-old, discovered a deserted lumberyard that was separated from a low stretch of Wall by a vacant lot and the "death strip." a border of sand within easy range of a dozen Communist tommy guns...
...Coming Fall. Some 1,400,000 new houses and apartment units will be built this year (a gain of 9% over last year), but 7.4% of the nation's apartments are now vacant. Says one top mortgage specialist: "The owners can't afford such a large vacancy rate. There has got to be a drop in starts...
Last Christmas, Speeth's fifth graders staged Amahl and the Night Visitors, went on to an uncut version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. This summer a church volunteered use of the vacant "theater" building, where Speeth and volunteer collegians held six-hour daily classes for 101 kids in literature, music appreciation, dancing and dramatics, with play rehearsals after hours...
...needed tonic, by raising once again the religious question in all its jagged complexity; like Bergman's knight one finds it equally hard to believe and not to want to believe, as he sees the church's agents light the faggots round the stake, andthe smoke disappearing into the vacant intersteller spaces beyond...