Word: awash
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...strangles his mistress and is slowly enveloped by guilt. He blurts out a confession to his wife, who understands; he tells his best friend, who is similarly sympathetic. The fact that his friend was also his mistress's husband only adds a little piquancy to the situation. Awash in forgiveness, the hapless killer has only one logical object for his mounting horror and self-loathing. His home, all glass and chrome and odd, abrupt angles, makes a suitably antiseptic moral landscape for the film, which is implacably smooth and elegant in the telling. Among Chabrol's finest work...
Driving to Washington's Shoreham Hotel, he found the ballroom awash with the faithful whose cheers of "Four more years" blended with the band's Hail to the Chief. Looking as relaxed as he ever has on a public occasion, Nixon observed contentedly: "I've never known a national election when I could go to bed earlier...
...controlled economies is that some goods are always in surplus while others are maddeningly scarce. Thus the East Germans are plenteously swaddled in curtain material but sadly lacking in fresh fruit. The Czechs boast a superfluity of fruit but their coffee and vodka are prohibitively expensive. The Soviets are awash in coffee and vodka but desperately desire well-fashioned clothes and shoes. Nearly everyone in Eastern Europe hungers for Hungarian salamis, and Hungary is piled high with them; yet many a Magyar bosom droops despairingly for want of an uplifting...
Curiously, the greatest party lovers were the Chinese. Their embassy receptions, awash with plenty of mind-numbing mao-tai liquor, were the most popular social events in Santiago. But the Chinese were always tough-bargaining businessmen. Last week three of them huddled with three Chilean girls in a combination bar-brothel and were told that the price of the action would be $75 each, double the pre-UNCTAD days. The Chinese held a hasty conference and made a decision: they would share one girl...
...June, a black gunman named Jerome Johnson pumped three 7.65-mm. slugs into Colombo. Johnson himself was immediately killed by a Colombo bodyguard. Colombo survived, although he is paralyzed and said to be virtually "a vegetable." To its acute discomfort, the Mafia, which flourishes best in secrecy, found itself awash in the same kind of publicity that followed the 1957 summit meeting in Apalachin, N.Y., where 60 chieftains from across the nation were arrested...