Word: yank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Larry Darrell wants to find the Meaning of Life in some sort of mix of intensive reading and travel. The more Murray talks of reading and contemplation, though, the more it seems the film tries to yank our contact lenses of understanding out of out eyes, making the search for meaning little more than a vague blur. "Do you read all these books," asks a miner, pointing to a filled shelf. "I skim them," Time and again the books stay blurred; the brown blur could be a first edition Kant, the redder blur could be Bible, but they could just...
...leaped out, the crowd surged over wooden police barricades chanting, "Win, Jesse, win!" Jackson, smiling broadly, strode into the throng, surrounded by apprehensive Secret Service agents who formed a circle around him; one kept a tight grip on the back of Jackson's raincoat so that he could yank the candidate down immediately if any danger arose. None did; Jackson's admirers obviously wanted only to touch and be touched. A young man dressed in a dirty sweatshirt and blue jeans held his open right . hand in front of him and exclaimed in wonder, "I shook his hand...
Such signs of trendy "me" generationism from the West are bound to disrupt a culture famous for both its antiquity and its insularity. As it has tried to yank itself into modernity while preserving its respect for history, to sustain simultaneously its dedication to progress and its devotion to the past, Deng's China?like contemporary Japan in its very different way?has often lost its balance...
Dooley was so quick to yank his starters that no individual records were set although the squad's number one and two scorers Kathy Carroll and Drane Hurley each garnered a goal and four assists Senior defenseman Suzanne Tanner noticed her first ever varsity goal on an assist from sophomore Mary Boland who had two periods earlier also earned her first tally to cap the seven goal opening stanza...
...chronological order. Berlin outlines O'Neill's innovative style. In The Emperor Jones O'Neill overwhelmingly used symbolism and created the first major part for a Black man. He used The Hairy Ape as a vehicle for a condemnation of the capitalistic, mechanistic materialism of American society. In comparing Yank, the protagonist, to Oedipus and Hamlet. O'Neill is addressing the oldest theme in history--man's struggle with his own fate. The play, Berlin notes, "is more existential than political, more metaphysical and spiritual than social, Man's desire to belong, his quest for belonging. is the measure...