Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coloratura high wire, both singers emerge as phenomenal. Each has staggering facility in florid runs, trills, leaps and arpeggios. Both have been accused of overdecorating their music, though each plans embellishments so tastefully and executes them so brilliantly that only stringent purists object...
Perhaps the most striking and powerful photographer is the 24-year-old Danny Lyon, whose series called "Conversations with the Dead" creates a dialogue between prison inmates and the viewer. Neither barbed wire nor bars prevent our entering into a few moments of hard labor, heat exhaustion, or schizophrenia. The contrast of the spurs on a guard's boots with the nude buttocks of the prisoners leaves an unerasable after-image, as does the image of white bars cutting across the face of a cigarette-smoking inmate...
Never had there been such extreme security measures to guard Queen Elizabeth in her own capital. Some 6,000 extra police stood duty in the center of London. Police launches and even frogmen guarded the Thames river approaches to Parliament. The building entrance was encircled by wire netting, and police made four separate searches through the underground tunnels in which, exactly 366 years ago, Guy Fawkes' plot to blow up Parliament had been discovered...
...Tasaday say that most of the brass wire used for earrings was given to them by the trapper who visited them. They claim that they inherited some from their ancestors who probably got it from outsiders also...
...words with whichever hand he was not using to prop up his head. Finally, he stopped talking and leaned back against the pillows piled at the head of his bed. The woman bent further forward, kissed him on the cheek and then walked over to the jail ward's wire-mesh door. As a red headed state policeman negotiated the lock, the young woman looked back at the bed where Malik Hakim, torn tendons in both his legs, lay. Hakim touched his dark, long-fingered hands together, and inclined his head towards them and her with an air of silent...