Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meanwhile fallen in love with the lawyer's church-studying stepson. At a house party which the three other love pairs attend also, the wife and the stepson, by a variety of plot and thematic clevernesses, end up in the same bed. The young couple make their exit in the lawyer's carriage, while he looks on and does nothing. The wife's virginal white veil flutters to the ground in the grey light of early dawn, and the lawyer lifts it to his brow with a groan as he falls against a courtyard wall. Even in lecture, the scene...
...Nixon Administration is plainly desperate if it is willing to risk the promised glory of a Russian journey. The people of Vietnam are defeating the invader. As long as it insists on winning, the U.S. can make no exit. Like a trapped rodent gnawing at its leg, Nixon is ripping apart his hopes for diplomatic triumphs in Moscow and Peking. Now is the time to push the U.S. out of Indochina. Now is the time to spring the trap...
...EVACUATION OF Massachusetts Hall by Afro and PALC yesterday displayed once again the timing and organization which have characterized their seven-day occupation of the building. The exit was carried out with style and bravado. Unfortunately, the cohesiveness of Afro and PALC has not extended to the Harvard strike, which has fallen into complete disarray. Tuesday night, after rejecting a motion to continue the strike in its present form, over one sixth of the persons at the Sanders Theatre strike meeting voted to reconsider the question. It then passed by a 324-190 margin, and the meeting adjourned after...
...this time, I was a little disturbed and was ready to make a graceful exit, but I told Harrison that all I was doing was raising the objections that had come into my mind, and that I hadn't meant to insinuate that he was wrong. Harrison relaxed somewhat and I tried to turn the conversation to a less controversial subject, this year's freshman team...
...Exit: The girl has fallen for someone else. The Tramp sets off, his back to the camera, his bamboo cane a parenthesis of melancholy. Abruptly, the little shoulders twitch, the leg shakes off tragedy like a cramp. The head snaps to attention. Step, skip, step-the Tramp is restored, off once more on the unimproved road to Better Times...