Word: lampe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raised strip will separate north- and south- bound traffic, on which will stand two-globed lamp posts...
...image was wobbly it wasn't because of bad transmission," she says. "It was just my make-up blurring." Another night a "deuce" (2,000-watt spotlight) exploded while she was singing a number called Lovers' Gold. Showered by shattered glass from the smoking, spluttering lamp, Bargy didn't miss a single tremulous note. Besides poise, she has developed a phenomenal memory for lyrics, spot commercials and program notes, because she is too nearsighted to read either sheet music or off-camera cards...
...beside a rubbish dump and set himself a course of reading that would have floored an Oxford don. After listening to a light opera one evening, he discovered that his mind "retained music as the kidneys secrete water." (Now, after reading in bed at night, Cardus switches off the lamp, selects some favorite composition from his head and conducts an imaginary concert before falling asleep...
Anders spent more than a year in Lubianka, much of the time in solitary confinement under an electric lamp so powerful that it nearly made him blind. Then, suddenly, he was summoned before NKVD Chief Lavrenti Beria, who informed him that Germany had attacked Russia, and that Anders had been "elected" commander of all Poles in the U.S.S.R...
...Crucifixion: its ghastliness. Rose had clothed the figure of Christ in writhing ribbons of green flesh outlined with black and lavender, dripping streamer-like gouts of purplish blood. The painting swarmed dizzyingly with abstruse symbols, many of them phallic. Christ's brow, overhanging the foreground, was an electric lamp...