Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...often confusing Despite some sluggishness, however, the lush colors used to capture often horrible scenes are visually fascinating. Even when you don't know what's going on, you become entranced by the mere look of the film. Also, Schygulla's performance is excellent: she's alternately the Virgin Mary in slut's garter belt or Bloody Mary wearing a false halo. At its core, The Marriage of Maria Braun is a story of the mental and moral devastation of war, told in a fashion much like "Alice In Wonderland...
After Cass retired in 1974, he moved to the Virgin Islands where he worked for several years with the public health service on St. John's. Cass convinced the health service to purchase a well-equipped boat which he used to carry emergency patients to the hospital on St. Thomas...
...determination I had, and plenty. The same kind of determination that our pioneer forebears showed when they forged a proud and free new home out of nothing but virgin soil and faith in God. So if the odds were against me, I knew that I had the guts to stick it out. And of course, if all else failed I could always pull some sleazy gimmick...
...acres). With crops and cattle returning marginal profits in Costa Rica, and interest rates exceeding 20%, he has met with little resistance and hopes to purchase the remaining land by February 1988. Environmentalists are cheering him on. "We as conservationists in Latin America have traditionally (preserved) pristine or virgin areas," says Curtis Freese, the World Wildlife Fund's director of Latin American and Caribbean programs. "Janzen is saying that we can look at largely degraded lands and restore them to natural or close to natural ecosystems...
...machine, with its stripped and logical forms, its imagery of power, change and fast communication, would make concrete what Walt Whitman had dreamed of: "The expression of the American poet is to be transcendent and new." Farewell to Henry Adams' Virgin, to the Renaissance and Gothic nostalgia that had assuaged the cultural elites of New York and Boston at the end of the 19th century; welcome to the dynamo, to the total plan, the slick shell housing, the fins and flanges, the didactic sheen of stainless steel, the Aztec-style bracelet of imperishable Bakelite. Goodbye, Hell's Kitchen; hello, skyscraper...