Word: waists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What drew him to the play, he explains, was "the parallel between the spiritual bankruptcy of Germany in the 1920s and our country in the 1960s." At the first rehearsal, Prince showed the actors a photograph of "a group of Aryan blonds in their late teens, stripped to the waist, wearing religious medals, snarling at the camera like a pack of hounds." The cast placed the picture in pre-war Germany. Actually, Prince pointed out ominously, it was a gang of toughs fighting the integration of a Chicago school...
...foot by another inmate, who had been armed to supervise cons working on the prison's 22,000-acre farm. For Bogard, who was serving a 25-year stretch for armed robbery, the knife injury was a ticket to freedom. But the price-paralysis from the waist down -came high, and Bogard sued three former prison officials, a prison guard and three inmates, charging negligence, cruel and unusual punishment and a violation of due process. In October, a six-woman jury in Greenville, Miss., awarded $500,000 to Bogard, 26, who now lives on welfare with his mother...
...record foregone here and there hardly constitutes personal deprivation. As a student at Harvard I feel the effects of the present economic crisis about as poignantly as I feel my belt when I tighten it around my waist in the morning. I, together with most undergraduates, diligently keep up on the facts and figures of the deepening recession in this country. We read in the New York Times about the decrease in the average American's purchasing power; we hear on the radio about families in inner cities who eat dog food to survive...
...insights into the oil cartel's doings; the author leaves no doubt at all that the Arabs are going to buy up the world if they can. Robbins' fans may find that prospect less galvanizing than the usual steamy prose: "Automatically her legs widened to encircle his waist...
...freight boat will dock. As they go behind the hump of sandbars, both water and boat disappear while heads and torsos are still visible. From across the river you are left with the impression of groups of Indians skateboarding along at top speed behind the sandbars, motionless from the waist...