Word: beholding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assessment so the owners could sell the house?" Puglia, a political opponent of the Howes, asks. "That's unheard of. You're supposed to lower the assessment only if the property has gone down in value. And then, all of a sudden, a few months later, lo and behold, Howe's sister buys the property...
Upon entering the Nautilus room of the Indoor Track and Field facility you will behold what resembles an art deco torture chamber from which you can hear a cacaphony of screams, groaning chains, and disco music...
Anyone who thinks the theater of the absurd is extinct need only attend the Brooklyn Academy of Music's production of Julius Caesar to behold it rampant on a field of idiocy. Director Frank Dunlop's conception of the play is so aberrant, so devoid of all sense and meaning, that when it does not border on the ludicrous it achieves the inane...
...desk sat a cartoon with the inscription: "Behold the turtle, He makes progress only when his neck is stuck out." Conant was able to follow that advice in a way that should prove inspirational to today's educators, who without exception continue to lie in his imposing shadow...
...French director Agnes Varda fails to delve beyond the difficult circumstances of these women's lives to probe into their hearts and psyches. The resolutions of the two journeys are too simple--the widow cautiously remarries and finds happiness, while the singer leaves her domineering husband and, lo and behold, also finds happiness. There is an important moral here: that cutting loose entails pain and uncertainty, but that it can work. But Varda ties the free-floating ends back up just a bit too swiftly and neatly...