Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Different invasions weathered and eroded it, piling monument upon monument. The contentions of monarchs and empires have stained it with blood, have wearied and refreshed its landscape repeatedly with mosques and cathedrals and fortresses. In the ebb and flow of histories and cultures it has time and time again been a flash-point where Aryan and Semite, Christian and Moslem met in a death embrace...
Heart attacks are caused by the formation of an obstacle that reduces blood flow in a coronary artery. CVF increases the resistance of cells that would die because of the lessened blood flow, thereby decreasing tissue death...
...bless you, let's everybody stand back." Amazingly, they did, and he played Presence of the Lord. It was a rare reversal of the atmosphere rock stars labor to generate. The usual formula is to arouse the crowd early in a concert and then feed on the flow of energy. But Clapton vowed not to do the number again. Said he: "That's part of my responsibility to the audience...
Shakespeare was repeatedly showing off. There are numerous setpieces that, while lovely poetry in themselves, impede the dramatic flow. And he imposes on his dialogue a number of traditional forms from outside the theater. For instance, the lovers' first meeting is cast in the mold of one complete Elizabethan sonnet and part of a second; their postnuptial parting is a Provencal alba (which the Bard may have known through Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and which reaches its peak of effectiveness in the second act of the aforementioned Tristan); Juliet declaims a Classical epithalamium; and Paris delivers an elegy...
...young girl losing the world and her dear life for love. David Birney's Romeo is so limp and bland that it comes as a wondrous surprise that he has either the will or strength to climb to Juliet's balcony. Mercutio, that man from whom words flow like liquid light, emerges in David Rounds' rendering as little more than a stand-up nightclub comic...