Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only two days later, as another stiffling afternoon began to cool down a little, that the nearby East New York section of Brooklyn blew. Calm had rested on the city like a highly flammable illusion through the record-breaking heat of early July. The Mayor's Office moved in nervously with quantities of community meetings and police re-inforcements at every hint of an outbreak. New Yorkers began to wonder if Lindsay's first summer would end without a baptism of violence in the ghettos. But, looking back, people will associate the summer of '66 with East New York...
Cloudy and cool, 70.6% chance of rain
...game of death." Harry reaches for a girl-and compulsively strangles her. A hangman dangles a noose before him, and Harry vaporizes into "the galaxy of the senses." The music stops. The shadow play is over. The special-effects spotlights and the ten slide and movie projectors momentarily cool...
California seems to be a place where the nation's most progressive state court is forced to cool down the nation's most combustible voters. In 1964, Californi ans overwhelmingly approved amendments to their state constitution that prohibited pay-TV and rejected the fair-housing law that forbade discrimination in the sale or rental of private homes. The California Supreme Court subsequently voided both amendments as unconstitutional. This election day, the voters face another explosive issue: Proposition 16, which is aimed at sharply amending the state's anti-obscenity statute in order to "control the flood...
With gracious manners, in a spacious drawing room, a fiftyish couple are leading an embalmer's parody of life. Tobias (Hume Cronyn) looks like a pair of rumpled pajamas; Agnes (Jessica Tandy) has the cool, waxy elegance of an unlit candelabra. Their 36-year-old daughter has drifted away from four husbands. Agnes' unmarried sister Claire (Rosemary Murphy) drifts blissfully on a sea of alcohol. Like autumn leaves, they celebrate drift, having forgotten how to cling...