Word: awaited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life there. No organized public life, at any rate. Said Shotwell: "The draft is gone, the war is more or less over, and the threat of interruption of life has ended." The passionate, impromptu politics of the '60s has long since closed down, and may have to await renewal until Jane Fonda's and Tom Hayden's new baby comes...
When the witches await Macbeth's first visit, the circular screen shows a sort of magnified and pulsating green organism. At "A drum! A drum! Macbeth doth come," we hear--indeed we feel--the pounding of heartbeats; but the heart, significantly, is afflicted with arrhythmia. In the scene where Ross calls attention to the solar eclipse, the circle becomes a view of the period of totality with its brightly flaming corona. When Banquo is murdered and Fleance escapes, the circle becomes a blood-red target with a bull's-eye of blue, the color of heavenly innocence...
...site itself consists of an unusually broad expanse of empty land near the heart of metropolitan Boston. A few lone buildings await the bulldozer on the Triangle, which is currently covered by sterile ash-grey dirt, beer cans, auto parts, and other debris. The area has the appearance of being recently bombed out. The suggestion, seriously presented to the City council two months ago, that "victory gardens" be planted on the site while the land lies fallow, seems less than ludicrous...
Imagine a 1970s Heathcliff sitting in the study of Wuthering Heights, dressed in a country gentleman's tweeds. He has spent the morning keeping tab on his prosperous estate. Now, while his beautiful young wife and chil dren await him for 5 o'clock tea, he neatly taps on an electric typewriter his dark history of humiliation, vengeance and- since he is a Catholic convert-reform...
...indicated that he will await the results of the Senate hearing on Richardson and himself before actually "issuing directives to anyone," concerning the Watergate case...