Word: chills
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speeches ended and the small group wandered slowly down the street chanting slogans, hands clenched against the May chill, and soon dispersed. A few minutes later, the police also drove away...
Last week Venice glowed eerily under the chill night sky over Cinecitta studios as Fellini filmed the movie's final scene. On a set as large as a football field (cost: $500,000), the city lay frozen -its Grand Canal solid ice (constructed from sheets of white plastic), the Rialto Bridge sagging under layers of snow. The scene represents the dying Casanova's final thoughts about the city of his youth. On signal from the director ("Go, Donald"), Casanova moves slowly across the ice, his black cloak fanned open by the night wind. He pauses, kneels down...
...capricious spring surprised and bestirred much of the nation last week. While New York City's skyscrapers shimmered in 96° heat, the highest temperature ever recorded there in April, Floridians endured an unseemly chill and tornadoes skipped across Oklahoma and Texas. Heavy rains deluged Texas, Oklahoma and western Kansas-but too late to save the drought-stricken winter wheat crop, whose scraggly remains have been plowed under. Residents of heavily evacuated Minot, N. Dak., breathed easier as their earthen dams continued to hold against the crested Souris River, but 400,000 acres were flooded, dampening the area...
...stony, sere landscape, the marchers trudged last week-40,000 strong. They were young and old, parents with infants, grandparents with dogs and cats, lovers holding hands. They carried sleeping bags, musical instruments, rifles, pistols and submachine guns. As black clouds stacked up over the Samarian foothills, a chill wind whipped through the marchers' ranks; many of the men had to secure their yarmulkes (skullcaps) with bobby pins. Still, they were in a festive mood, strumming guitars and singing patriotic songs around their campfires. From all over Israel, they had descended upon the ancient city of Jericho...
...people willing to stop and talk in the chill says she likes Carter "because he's not part of any machine," but she was upset by controversy over the "ethnic purity" statement...