Word: virginity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have not proved-that natives started a few of the blazes. The Government pays $46 to $65 a day for firefighters. A few weeks of these wages can mean nearly a year's living for a village family in the interior. Also, as more people move into hitherto virgin territory, there is a greater chance of accidental fires. Until recently, about 80% of Alaska's fires were caused by lightning, 20% by man; the ratio is now nearly reversed. Careless campers on the Kenai Peninsula, for example, left the embers that last month destroyed 2,578 acres...
...Christ." The shared excitement over the phenomenon has brought blacks and whites together in a proximity unusual for Port Neches; but the two races sometimes differ on what they see. One white farmer, who claims that he has taken some 25 photographs showing images of "the Christ Child, the Virgin Mary, the Three Wise Men, and angels," scoffed at Negro viewers. "These niggers come away saying they've seen Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy and J.F.K. Boy, those people sure have an imagination...
...husband and wife, inspired countless heated arguments at social occasions and engendered public controversy from coast to coast. As if on a holy crusade, the strikers stage marches that resemble religious pilgrimages, bearing aloft their own stylized black Aztec eagle on a red field along with images of the Virgin of Guadalupe, patroness of Mexicans...
...Cole rejoiced because it was also a landscape that-unlike the more familiar Alps and the more picturesque Italian ruins-was at the time undiscovered by artists. "No Tivolis, Ternis, Mont Blancs, hackneyed and worn by the daily pencils of hundreds," he wrote with delight, "but primeval forests and virgin lakes...
...course there are a few quibbles. The songs repeat their best lines ("You always used to be a virgin/ But it's so hard to tell these days") too often. A few scenes (a slap, a mugging) seem contrived. But the film is so well put together that these are at worst minor hitches, and at best strange contributions. Its shortness gives every excess, every idiosyncracy, a function in character establishment. The excessive repetition of line and gesture, for example, makes the characters look a little silly: it balances their very romantic notions and intense self-attention. Humor like this...