Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time, Suwelo's wife, Fanny Nzingha, daughter of Olivia from The Color Purple, goes to Africa to learn about her own roots. She finds her father, a dissident playwright who somehow manages to keep his job as Minister of Culture of a fictional African republic while he is regularly thrown into jail for writing scathing plays...
...peculiar. Larkin and his contemporaries inherited the scorched earth of modernism -- the towering shadow cast by Yeats, the multilingual complexities introduced by Eliot and Pound, the daunting technical virtuosity of Auden. Starting out, Larkin had the good taste to imitate all these (except Pound), with some Dylan Thomas thrown in for good measure. He got out from under his predecessors only when he learned to lower his voice, to submerge complexities of thought and feeling beneath a serene, limpid surface...
...about the best I've thrown," Rau said. "I held them most of the way, and the guys played great defense behind...
Manuellian added that preserving examples of Armenian culture is important because the Turkish government wants to remove all traces of Armenian occupation of the land. Tour guides who mention Armenian culture are sometimes thrown in jail, she said...
...horrifies me that a dean seems to have thrown all of his bigoted weight on top of lesbian and bisexual and gay students," said Joseph H. Cice '88-89, co-chair of the bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students' Association...