Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps an even more important element, in the long run, is the fact that the long-dormant and virtually powerless Africans had stood up en masse and confronted the government, and had done so with minimal organization. If the blacks begin to stand up to it, how long can Smith's white-supremacy government hold...
...does Chabrol fall victim to melodrama in his direction. He gets impact from understatement and from two superb, low-key performances by Yanne and Audran (who is Mrs. Chabrol in private life). In Chabrol's treatment, the schoolmistress not only triggers the killer's dormant psychopathy but becomes a partner in his crime. Perversely, as he becomes more dangerous, she is all the more drawn to him. Finally, knife in hand, the crazed killer confronts her late at night in her apartment. It is only then, in a violent, weird, but somehow touching denouement, that the two finally...
...bacroom of illusion, diluting his witches brew with tapwater, while all his gnomes worked frantically to design gaudier and gaudier designs for the mess." Or one an simply realize that all this does cost to great deal, 128 million roughly, pay the fee, and allow images and emotions lying dormant since childhood to make their presence felt once again...
...group sprang from a dormant Massachusetts YAF last April, when eight of the most active and extreme members of YAF decided that its conservatism was no longer tolerable to their philosophy...
Titled Ms. after the movement's preferred form of female address (instead of Mrs. or Miss), the magazine will appear on its own in January with a special double issue and then lie dormant until late spring, when monthly publication is scheduled to start. Elizabeth Harris, 49, a former vice president of CRM, Inc. (Psychology Today, Intellectual Digest), will serve as publisher. Editor Steinem, 37, envisions Ms. as a nonsexist "how to" magazine "for the liberated female human being-not how to make jelly but how to seize control of your life...