Word: congeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adults, the three young women still seek compensation for the parental debts left over from childhood. But good performances by these actresses can not really compensate for the desperate sobriety of the film, which robs it of energy and passion, so that it seems to congeal. One sign that Allen may have recognized this difficulty is his attempt at a big finish: a walk-into-the-sea suicide that is a belated attempt to engage us emotionally in a story so sterile that we have long since withdrawn from...
...power struggle is brewing between the Oriental warlords, and the question on everyone's lips is "Will the guileful Toranaga try to become Shogun [military dictator]?" Does sukiyaki need soy sauce? Of course Blackthorne signs on as Toranaga's henchman, while still more rivalries congeal the already thickening plot: Buddhists v. Christians, Spaniards v. Portuguese, Franciscans v. Jesuits, Protestants v. Catholics. Author Clavell is an encyclopedic chronicler of Oriental lore (his bestselling Tai-Pan was set in Hong Kong), and he lubricates his massive research with regular doses of bloodshed. Readers who can suppress the urge to commit...
...truly unified Eurocurrency-or "Euro" as moneymen call it -is still far away. Treasury Secretary John Connally, for one, is not overeager to see that day arrive. With a single currency, he fears, Europe may congeal into a unified economic bloc competing against the U.S., and the Europeans may let their currency float downward against the dollar whenever they want an added trade advantage against the U.S. At present, national rivalries prevent such truly coordinated action...
...ground, they congeal into patterns of dense urban settlement on the rim of the New York metropolitan area-Newark and East Orange and Orange and Maplewood and Irvington and Bloomfield and Glen Ridge. There are no green belts, no distinct borders: instead, there are parkways, railroads, and political boundaries that may run through the middle of a block. Main Street in East Orange becomes Main Street in Orange, and except for the change in house numbers, one town melts into another. Near the center of East Orange is a giant cross formed by the interchange between the Garden State Parkway...