Word: dampness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impossible dream of Juan Perón seemed no longer quite so impossible. Shaking off the effects of a damp homecoming two weeks ago after 17 years in exile, the onetime Argentine dictator, now 77, last week was adroitly bartering among the country's multitudinous political parties and keeping everyone guessing about his intentions. Would he find a way to unite the civilian opposition to Argentina's military government, and then run for the presidency in the elections scheduled for March 11? Perón was typically Delphic, carefully sidestepping the question at a press conference that...
...that way, because I can't tell you," Bergman writes in his screenplay. "The bluntest and also most tenable [explanation] is probably that the whole thing is internal, and ever since childhood I have imagined the soul to be a damp membrane in varying shades...
...today, I'm gonna hafta leave a little bit sooner." The song seems like a less than graceful exit; he can't take the girl, she's too young, but he's got to go because the weather's bad, "I'm no sun fanatic but it's damp in your attic, and your cat sleeps on my head." But he loves her, "I wouldn't tell you no lie," which is punctuated by a most telling laugh...
...your basement is still flooded, do not pump it out too fast as the pressure of the surrounding earth may cause the walls to collapse. Do not attempt to turn on your own electricity if any water is still in the house, even a damp floor. Do not connect any electrical appliances which have been under water...
...been cleaned up and prettified for the affair. The new film developed for the camera produced brilliant color, though some pictures appeared to be less sharp than those processed on standard, non-Polaroid film. Even so, the end product is superior to any previous Polaroid process. Unlike the damp prints that emerge from present models, the new ones -which are made of plastic, not paper -feel completely dry, even during the remarkable, outside-the-camera developing process. Thus the paper liners and other litter needed to protect prints in present Polaroids have been eliminated...