Word: bump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there's plenty of climb left, for these ridges tend to bump along, one false summit after another. Oh, another couple of hundred yards, oh, another 40 yards, oh (giggle), another quarter-mile. The real top is obvious; there are lots of people up there eating lunch. The wind picks up a little, cooling the sweat on our backs, and we add a layer or two. And when we get up there, we are pretty quiet, part tired, and part too busy with all the looking around in awe that occupies one on the tops of mountains. Mt. Jefferson, perched...
...waved to Helen and to the boys, and, as the clatterer moved into the old familiar roar, they swung around with Compie watching for wart-hog holes and roared, bumping along the stretch between the fires and with the last bump rose and he saw them all standing below, waving and the camp beside the hill, flattening now, and the plain spreading, clumps of trees and the bush flattening, while the game trails ran now smoothly to the dry waterholes, and there was a new water that he had never known of... Then they were over the first hills...
TESICH AND YATES seem to have forgotten the essential ingredient for a suspense story: suspense. A few things go bump in the night, but not enough. The intrigue eventually becomes less interesting than the story of Darryl Deever and the other well-layered characters who populate Eyewitness. In one particularly amusing scene, Darryl's girlfriend (who punctuates every other word with a "you know") confesses to Darryl that she does not love him. Suddenly enlightened, they stammer at each other: "I've never loved you." "I've never loved you, either." The international intrigue can't match the smaller...
Michelie J. Carley, another GSC member, agreed, saying. "With so few built-in accommodations for socializing, graduate students sort of bump around like loose atoms...
...acting career. Modeling?she is this year's Lincoln Mercury girl and Revlon Scoundrel perfume girl?pays the bills nicely but does not interest her much. At 23, she lives in Los Angeles, and has so far appeared in two horror films, Terror Eyes and Bump in the Night. Brooke Shields, she says, arching her willowy neck, "is a rotten actress...