Word: boiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CRIMINAL about this sort of self-centered expertise is that it usurps the film's only potential interest, its triangular network of human relationships. Rafelson splurges on suggestiveness and bankrupts the meaning of his suggestion. Sally's menopausal trauma is supposed to be a simmer that slowly comes to boil in manic proportions. But Rafelson dissects it into a series of chic vignettes; she throws a tantrum over rusty bathwater, is glimpsed through a bedroom door, naked, giddily squirting a watergun at a cowboy costumed Jessica. Tear-streaked, she burns her beauty aids with funereal ceremony, mourns her Maybelline...
Hinze notched the second goal with a booking corner kick precisely placed his the top right of the goal. Pasternak was sprawled in front of the not as the boil whipped into the twice...
...watch a show, but to witness a miracle." This year, on the late-September feast of San Gennaro (St. Januarius), the miracle came off so smoothly that no one even had to shout the traditional insults of "big stinker" or "green face" at the saint to make his blood boil. It took only 40 minutes of prayer by the cardinal and the local populace for the dark crystalline substance-venerated as the 4th century martyr's blood-to liquefy in its hermetically sealed glass vial, as it has several times a year for at least 500 years...
That was enough to bring the blood of all Naples to a boil. San Gennaro, a newspaper editorial proclaimed, was "not just the patron but the godfather of Naples." A professor at the University of Naples, Gastone Lambertini, accused "modern" Catholics of having an "anemic faith." He announced that he had secured Cardinal Ursi's permission for a group of scientists from the university to study the phenomenal blood of Naples' patron saint...
Campus activism began simmering on several fronts this week although the prospect that it will reach a full boil this year is as yet uncertain...