Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reverse, the growth of state government; he boasts of vetoing 194 items of legislation that would have cost Californians billions of dollars. But many liberals share the view of Dean McHenry, chancellor emeritus of the University of California at Santa Cruz, that "his bark proved worse than his bite." Even Jesse ("Big Daddy") Unruh, a longtime foe who was the defeated Democratic candidate for Governor in 1970, grudgingly admits, "As a Governor, Reagan was better than most Democrats would concede, though not nearly as good as most Republicans like to think...
When asked about the goodies at the house of Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, Bok warned, "I'd have someone else bite into it first...
...slow day Western history might be reduced to a tale of two apples. The first comes wrapped in art and myth: Eve took the bite and mankind got its eviction notice from Paradise. The second is baked in its own apocryphal jacket: Isaac Newton got his deep insight into gravity when struck by a falling fruit. Result: a new brand of physics that relocated us even farther from the godhead-and a reverse anthropomorphism that saw the human body as a machine. Today Adam Smith implies the West has an urge to work its way back, past technology, past...
Swarms of sand fleas, mosquitoes and flies infest the area. There are also scorpions and several varieties of poisonous snakes, including a viper that is only eight inches long but extremely toxic. To avoid snake bite, Israeli soldiers in the Sinai have been ordered to wear boots rather than sandals, which in turn has led to a virtual epidemic of athlete's foot...
...color, each frame was hand-painted. Otherwise it is boring, a sentimental undersea adventure with stilted mermaids. Dreams of Wild Horses (1960), on the other hand, tears at the viewer with the same urgent power with which two stallions in the film dance and kick and bite. It gives us nine minutes of wild horses in the south of France rippling in slow motion through marshes, waves, and spray. In the end, horses leap over walls of fire, sucking their bellies up into themselves, trying to escape back to the wild. It is the conjunction of freedom and terror...