Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seventy minutes of scoreless play put an abrupt end to a Thanksgiving vacation in Denver for the Harvard women's field hockey team...
...testify fully before a Senate committee four years ago, Bell at that moment was informing President Carter of his "just and fair disposition" of the case. Confronted with a virtual fait accompli, Carter hastily gave Bell his consent, and the four-year-old Helms investigation came to an abrupt...
...alternative detoxification methods for drug addicts. Humes traces his first "breakthrough" in this endeavor to 1967, when he began operating his first detoxification clinic in Rome. Humes claims to have gotten 125 addicts off their habits, most of them heroin users. However, his initial experimental program came to an abrupt halt in 1967 when police closed down his operation while Humes was away from Rome. Upon learning that the clinic had been put out of business, Humes then fled to Paris where he spent about five months in 1968 pursuing his research into detoxification methods and participating in the Paris...
...experiment. A champion and biographer of Arnold Bennett, Drabble has produced an argumentative novel very much in the oratorical mold favored by Bennett and his contemporaries. When she wants a point emphasized or a warning heeded, she consciously resorts to long-outmoded fictional devices: the interpolated essay and the abrupt dismissal of characters who no longer serve her purpose...
Valentino. Ken Russell's latest turkey can be credited for furnishing an appealing showcase for Rudolf Nureyev's breathtaking prowess on an empty dance floor, but compliments come to an abrupt halt there. We see all the glamor and fame that filled the title character's moment in the spotlight, but Nureyev's Valention remains a distant figure, a romantic anachronism bursting forth with panache and charisma and little else. Russell seems to persist in the belief that audiences enjoy having their senses assaulted and will consider it entertainment; grotesques and caricatures dot the screen in Valentino, evoking some...