Word: frigidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frigid day last March, the campus seemed more radical Berkeley than the indifferent Yard...
Indeed, as in most of his films, his characters here are nothing more than props. And while such an approach worked wonders in 2001, A Clockwork Orange and Dr. Strangelove, here it's an unforgivable error. In Eyes Wide Shut, sex is so unerotic, so frigid, so unfulfilling that the story exists as a two-dimensional vision of perversion and nothing more...
Summer has advantages that frigid January just can't touch, like the ability to walk, jog or rollerblade on Memorial Drive. On Sundays, Memorial Drive is closed to traffic, but a paved path along the river is good enough the rest of the week...
...Clinton pleaded for the allies to "stay focused and patient." But there are not many months left for the air campaign or the diplomacy to work in time for ethnic Albanians to be shepherded home to their charred villages before the autumn snows turn the battered province into a frigid moonscape. So too does the inflexible logic of winter force NATO to confront whether ground troops even remain a live option. As a State Department official noted, there's a lot of motion going on, but not a lot of change...
...modern standards, the hostile summit of Mount Llullaillaco, in the Argentine Andes, is no place for kids. The ancient Inca saw things differently though, and so it was that one day, some 500 years ago, three children ascended the frigid and treacherous upper slopes of the 22,000-ft. peak. The three had spent time at the 17,000-ft. level, taking part in rituals that can only be guessed at. Now, accompanied by a retinue of adults, they moved steadily upward. They would not return. Once at the summit, the children--two girls and a boy, between eight...