Word: abound
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Still, sometimes the natural is not enough. To render the coinages, puns, obscure allusions and technical vocabulary that abound in Grass's novels, Manheim consulted a series of specialists. Dentists were interviewed for Local Anaesthetic, stonecutters for The Tin Drum and conchologists for From the Diary of a Snail. On other esoteric points, Manheim prefers to query Grass by letter, rather than participate in seminars that the author periodically conducts in Frankfurt for his translators...
...played by John Lynch) is an unemployed, listless adolescent who lives with his father--the only Catholics remaining on an all, Protestant housing estate. Pro-British regalia clutter the place in a display of fierce loyalty. Threats on their lives, their house, their dignity, abound. Father (played by Donal McCann) and son are movingly bound by fear, whispering in their own house. They live on the edge, vulnerable yet resilient, caught up inextricably in Ulster's tangled animosities. "No Protestant git's going to drive me out; y'have to kill me first." The father's defiance is juxtaposed against...
...streets abound with anxious sports fans (I wonder how Baker Field will hold them all), and you can't find a parking space anywhere in Manhattan...
British unemployment still hovers at 12.5 percent with much higher rates in parts of Scotland and Wales. New industries have not stepped into replace old ones and areas of desolation abound, Perhaps Scargill would be less militant about pit closings if he felt assured that jobs at new mines could be found for those layed off, or that other sectors of the economy could absorb them without too much community disruption and disintegration...
...works. Last winter his collaboration with Composer Marvin Hamlisch on a dirge about Jean Seberg, in which the actress was seriously compared with Joan of Arc, fizzled at the stake. Now Sir Peter has devised an adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm. As in Jean Seberg, masks abound, with the actors simulating Orwell's heroic horses, quisling chickens and Stalinist pigs (led by David Ryall as Squealer). It is all very faithful and, in a couple of songs by Adrian Mitchell and Richard Peaslee, tuneful. The mood on Sir Peter's green and peasant farm...