Word: chillness
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...towel to his loins. In a sense, all of Director Nichols' work, from Virginia Woolf to The Graduate and Catch-22, has included the same scene: knowledge precedes shame. On the surface, Nichols' new film, Carnal Knowledge, is an unfettered sexual farce. But the subtext carries the chill of fastidious puritanism: sex is dirty; touch it and you get a disease...
...long blue lines of uniformed police paid solemn tribute to four fallen comrades last week, a chill swept through the nation's largest and sixth largest municipal law-enforcement agencies. On successive days, nearly 5,000 policemen from a dozen states gathered in New York for the funerals of Black Patrolman Waverly M. Jones and his white partner, Joseph A. Piagentini. The two were riddled in the back with .45-cal. bullets while answering a routine call in East Harlem. In the nation's capital, hundreds of uniformed and plainclothes D.C. policemen attended services honoring Officers Jerard Foster...
Darkness eventually shrouded the compound, and revolutionary noncooperation or not, the protesters began to protect themselves against the chill. Blankets were unfolded, and packing crates were broken up for firewood. The fervor of resistance seemed to relax, revealing a band of people who were young, tired and cold. A few tried a couple of verses of Viet Nam Rag, then retreated into subdued silence; hardly anyone knew the words. Then someone put a harmonica to his mouth, and soon they were singing, like so many Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls...
...having written about the sunrise of New Mexico, it becomes impossible to elaborate. It is not real-days and nights on a mesa-the warmth and meaning of the sun when clouds brought the chill of the altitude. Some have wondered why Indians with histories of peace lived on mesas when water had to be carried from the valleys around...
...sentimental journey creates more chill than charm. She is unsettled to find Belfast decorated for the festival of July 12-the date in 1690 of the Battle of the Boyne which "ensured the preservation of the true Protestant Christian faith against the Whore of Rome...