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Word: drench (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Doubtless. And perhaps if the film were made with real flak, one would feel like toying with its mystical precepts. But Director Wise cannot think of any way to stress the spooky except to drench scenes in rain, while Writer De Felitta cranks out undigested research. They are very tedious fellows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Reincarnation: The Audrey Seed | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

Given this second life, Knapp threw goose eggs into the fifth, at which point, with the Judges having just assumed the lead, the rains came--not hard enough to call off the game, but hard enough to drench the field and everyone else who didn't have an umbrella...

Author: By Mike Savit, | Title: Brandeis Prevails Over Crimson Batmen, 3-1; Judges' Knapp Puts Harvard Offense to Sleep | 4/29/1976 | See Source »

...third in his class at Harvard Law and didn't know when to stop. He was so competitive that even a waterfight became a contest. If he lost he'd be upset for days, and he'd sneak up on people hours later with buckets full of water to drench them in revenge. The other one was an easygoing Mr. Open Door, a beer-drinking football player who took his boys out to girls' colleges on weekends. The two rarely spoke. A freshman from Thayer described a blow-by-blow battle of sexual rivalry between his proctors, one of whom...

Author: By Kathy Holub, | Title: Unplanned Parenthood | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...isolation, Resnick's work has developed steadily, and it now stands at an exhilarating pitch of concentration. He may not be Monet's follower, but his pictures do bear similarities to the late Monet lily ponds, not only in format -they are usually long, narrow rectangles, which drench the viewer in a field of color-but also in their light and density of surface. Resnick is a quite traditional painter, to the extent that he works in intimate, stroke-by-stroke contact with his painting. Brush marks pile on one another, forming a layered web of minutely graded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Iron Will to Form | 5/29/1972 | See Source »

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