Word: acridity
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...trademark decency and slip into Ahab's rasping obsession. Plus, the film's mechanical whale, which looks like a great slab of lard with a cold blue eye, kept sinking when it was meant to swim. But what matters is the saline tang of the location shooting and the acrid foretaste of doom as Ahab sails to his awful destiny, taking his crew and the audience with him on that terrifying ride...
...shall live apart. Near the entrance to the township a large sign promises the people of Daveyton a POT OF GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW. But the little concrete houses that line the treeless streets, the dry, packed earth that everywhere passes for a garden, and the acrid smell of coal fires in the early-morning air are evidence of a far different reality. Last week the people of Daveyton braced themselves for what seemed an almost inevitable confrontation with security forces. The township was preparing to bury Egnes Mbongani, 18, and Elizabeth Khumalo, 16, two girls shot...
...been much higher but for the heroics of the train's driver, Vladimir Gorelov, who slammed on the brakes and contacted engineers to shut the power off so that people could get out of the train without risking electrocution. Some 500 people escaped. Despite the darkness, fire and the acrid smoke, witnesses said passengers were remarkably calm...
...been even higher but for the heroics of the train's driver, Vladimir Gorelov, who slammed on the brakes and contacted engineers to shut the power off so that people could get out of the train without risking electrocution. Some 500 people escaped. Despite the darkness, fire and the acrid smoke, witnesses said passengers were remarkably calm. Could they be getting used to such atrocities? The underground carnage was yet another reminder of how dangerous Russia has become since President Vladimir Putin came to power. While Putin has imposed draconian curbs on the media and created a tame parliament - some...
...reactionary, sinning and sinned against, its characters make surprising connections. And it grants all of them--even, in his way, Cohn--complexity and dignity. When Prior meets Hannah, he says he can only imagine what she, a Mormon from Utah, must think of him. She answers, hard and acrid as a salt flat, "No, you can't imagine the things in my head...