Word: calme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene opens in pitch darkness, except for the flicker of some electronic indicator and the calm cobalt face of the monitor. When time begins moving, it is with a queer jerky stylization, folding in on itself. Beckett's characters on paper are so surrealistic, so utterly removed from normal constraints or modes of reference, that it's an initial shock to see one walking around. The fifty-is Gullett, white hair frizzed, eyes bugged out, toddles and grumbles like a Monty Python animated character, and it's a long while before he talks...
Those and other battles will be joined soon enough. For the present, Spain was calm and triumphant. For the third time since Franco's death, the country had freely elected a government, this time with a record voter turnout of 79.5%. With each trip to the polls, the people of Spain seemed to gain in political maturity and to reinforce the underpinnings of their young democracy...
...most people's idea of a radical activist He is average height, a little heavy-set, and has an average-looking face. Like most men of his age, he is getting a hint of gray in his hair, carries a briefcase and has teenage children. He speaks in a calm, soft voice, even when discussing an issue about which he feels deeply, for instance, his decision to attend law school because of the law's importance to civil rights...
...McLaughlin (a Dartmouth alumnus, as Kemeny is not) helping to carve an ice sculpture for the Winter Carnival; so one has reason to hope that the Review might not oppose the administration as much in the future. Unreasonable and poorly stated opposition provoked the controversies of the past; calm deliberation can quiet them in the future...
...ascended from the sea, part of the lifting frame gave way and dropped about 6 ft. onto the delicate timbers of the ship with an awful crunching sound. Said Prince Charles after the near disaster: "I was slightly horrified, [but] the important thing is to be British and stay calm." Luckily, no serious damage was done. Wrapped in plastic sheeting and constantly sprayed with sea water to prevent further decay, the Mary Rose was soon en route to Portsmouth Harbor, culminating the most expensive ($7 million) underwater archaeological salvage operation in history...