Word: echoing
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...Filly's overwhelmingly Harvard character does not foster romance; "The prospects for picking-up are futile," according to one experienced Eliot house male. Women echo the lament: "Guys never buy girls drinks; girls are left to fend for themselves," says an anonymous Lowell House senior. But if you sight a prospect, the unassuming lines are the best. If you see some interest, offer to buy (or wait to offered) an iced tea (the Filly's most popular drink); this indicates that both of you are speaking the same language...
...surely the first time that Gromyko and Reagan had felt disposed to echo each other. But, then, they faced an unfamiliar task: describing an agreement that Gromyko had reached with Secretary of State George Shultz. To be sure, it was only an agreement to talk some more--specifically, to resume formal arms-control bargaining at a time and place to be selected within a month. Moreover, the U.S. and Soviet positions entering those new negotiations are very far apart; there is no assurance that they can be harmonized. Nonetheless, the similar statements by Gromyko and Reagan pointed to a tacit...
...subtlest heights. They scarcely exchange a word, but they silently signal to each other from cut to cut, across vales of karma, achieving a communion that none of the other characters, for all their talk, ever do. In a way, they could be said to resonate to each other, echo each other...
...statuary and guarded by a large troop of anarchically aggressive monkeys. Later, going to testify at Aziz's trial, she must drive through a crowd raging at her, and a man in a monkey costume leaps on her car, pressing his face menacingly against the window. Is it this echo that impels her to testify that she was the victim of a hallucination and thus free Aziz from his anguish? The movie is silent on the point, allowing us to make what we will of the image...
...matter of the bouquet. Very early in the film Adela is given one by her fiancé as he welcomes her to Chandrapore. Very late in the film, the throbbing engines of a ship bearing Mrs. Moore homeward take on the tone and pitch of the cave's echo, and she dies. When she is buried at sea, an anonymous passenger throws a bouquet like Adela's into the water as the body slides under the waves. Echoes, echoes...