Word: denning
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...reject finally, definitively, all redemptive possibilities: love (represented by the return of his wife Yvonne); ideological commitment (represented by his hall brother Hugh, who was Yvonne's lover); even such mild anodynes as friendship and nonalcoholic amusement. His fate is to touch bottom, literally in a den of thieves, and he is in haste to find it. The intelligence of Gallo's work lies in his recognition that the symbolic values of Under the Volcano's major figures, incidents and landscape are intrinsic and easy to catch. They need no forcing...
...years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that Grendel's Den, a Cambridge restaurant, could not be denied a liquor license because of the opposition of a nearby church. The ruling marked a personal triumph for the Law School's number one Constitutional expert. Laurence H. Tribe '62, who argued the case for Grendel's. And he felt he was worth every penny of the legal costs up to $300,000 worth...
...Sherman family in Manhattan no longer huddles reverently in front of an ordinary boob tube that sits in the corner like a Buddha. Instead, the Shermans laze back in their den and let a wave of sight and sound wash over them from a new $16,000 audio-video system that does just about everything but get up and fetch the beer and popcorn. When Advertising Executive Sherman watches a football game on the new set, the clamor of the crowd blares at him from four speakers installed around the room, and larger-than-life players scramble across...
...scene conjured up images of Daniel in the lions' den: former President Richard Nixon addressing more than 800 of the nation's top journalists, including some who had written highly critical stories about his presidency. Instead of animosity, however, Nixon drew long, enthusiastic applause from editors and reporters attending the annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) in Washington last week. Said Creed Black, outgoing ASNE president and publisher of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader: "He gave a virtuoso performance...
...seems the place to be if you're a plastic penguin--or chicken, or duck, for that matter--is a lawn. Den Featherstone of Union Products, Inc., in Leominster, which made the penguins, said yesterday that large orders of birds are common...