Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family huddles around the Taos, N. Mex., bedside of an aged aunt to hear her final addled reverie of childhood, the dying woman whisks off a grizzled wig to reveal blond locks, sits bolt upright and brays delightedly at having sneaked in one last prank. At the sight of this transformation, the daughter's attitude shifts from terror to wonder. Moments later, she and the dying woman are jumping on the bed as though it were a trampoline, mingling the old one's romantic memories with the child's geography game in exultant shouts of "Zanzibar! Zanzibar...
...elderly women who wait for as long as an hour and a half -- as if "they were lining up to buy sausage," says a Memorial volunteer. One woman, hands trembling, offers to donate a ring that her husband fashioned for her in the prison camps out of a bolt nut. Another, barely keeping back tears, asks for advice about how to discover what happened to her father. She had thought he died of pneumonia in a labor camp in the early 1950s, but has recently heard that he was shot in Moscow's Lubyanka Prison...
Allen remembers a lightning bolt. "I ran out of class to get Bob, who said, 'Oh my God!' " He recalls, "We rushed to the site, tramping around in the mud." Their solution: filter the postoxidation pond water through a man-made wetland before piping it into the bay. The process is called polishing. Algae and other potentially harmful microbes cling naturally to swamp plant roots, starting a food chain. Filter-feeding organisms in the marsh water eat them...
...Thomas More? A) a man who stood his religious ground; B) a faithful servant to the King; C) a book store across from Au Bon Pain; or D) the subject of Richard Bolt's insightful and entertaining play A Man For All Seasons, which is being performed this weekend by the Leverett House Arts Society...
...overall strong cast in the Leverett House Arts Society's production of Bolt's play is bolstered by an able and consistent production crew. Set in the corner of the Leverett House Old Library, the stage is sparsely but tastefully decorated with Tudor-like furniture and props. To add to the period ambiance is the wooden arched lattice work that hangs from the ceiling, making one feel as if one has really stepped back in time...