Word: witnesse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A wild man who becomes a witness: that was Oliver Stone reborn. As he scythed his way through the Hollywood jungle, Stone earned the rep of a specialist with a social agenda. Four of the scripts that bear his name -- Midnight Express, Scarface, Year of the Dragon and 8 Million...
The show begins before the actors appear: all spectators are directed into the theater past the lip of the stage, where they witness the scene of the crime: two effigies of corpses lie sprawled in rags. Above them is a bloodstained mirror in which each onlooker may see his own...
You wouldn't know it from her writing, however. Robison writes with the same ironic precision that's in her speech. Witness this dialogue from her early short story "Bud Parrot":
The cagers have even prospered when their opponents have tried to slow the ball down; witness Harvard's 75 against Holy Cross on Monday. The Crimson will doubtless be in for more of the same stall-ball this weekend when the notoriously low-scoring Princeton Tigers come to Briggs Athletic...
Not long after Eisenstaedt arrived in the U.S., he came to the attention of TIME Co-Founder Henry Luce, who was about to embark on the publication of LIFE. Luce wanted his new magazine to make readers feel they were in the midst of settings they had formerly glimpsed from...