Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That just about sums up Waugh: The essential stage-Tory, at heart afraid of his own shadow, a maggot in the rotten core of English literature in the first half of this century...
...tree began to die, one branch at a time. LoGiudice worried about the neighborhood children who climbed in the tree. "I was afraid they would get hurt, and the city would get sued, or I would," he said. So he cut the tree down. An official of the parks department in Queens happened to spot the fallen tree and asked whether LoGiudice had a permit to ax it. LoGiudice could not tell a lie. No permit. He was sent a bill. Value of tree destroyed: $1,287. Replacement cost of three-inch flowering cherry tree: $200. Inspection fee: $25. Discount...
...sheer panic, one need go no further than Magritte's Hunters at the Night's Edge, 1928, with its two stocky, armed and booted he-men writhing in apprehension at the sight of an empty horizon. We see their fear but not what they are afraid...
...unmistakeable signature: Day At the Office shown last weekend used exactly the same background. It seems to be part of his protest against the Canadian bureaucracy. In this interview, a disembodied voice welcomes to Canada a Russian dissident filmmaker, who hides behind a desk throughout the interview. He is afraid to answer the interviewer's questions about the political reception of his films at home, and their commercial reception in Canada where distributors have refused it "because they might have to buy Canadian short films then too." Shusikov scuttles at last to the bathroom--and the movie ends with gunfire...
...been placed, and the convention has not yet been called, but much of official Washington is beginning to be afraid that it might be. Since the one and only Constitutional Convention of 1787, there has rarely been such a determined effort to convene another. Altogether 27 state legislatures have voted to call a convention to approve an amendment requiring a balanced federal budget. The National Taxpayers Union,* which is leading the drive, estimates that the necessary 34 states will be reached by summer...