Word: gasped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With bizarre hints and happenings (when Merricat orders a leg of lamb at the local store, the other customers gasp with horror) Miss Jackson tantalizingly builds up a picture of a household besieged by anger from without and fear from within. Creating a cross-rough of curiosity-backward in time to whatever dreadful event has brought the Black-woods to their present predicament, forward to some nameless but newly foreshadowed disaster in the future-the book manages the ironic miracle of convincing the reader that a house inhabited by a lunatic, a poisoner and a pyromaniac is a world more...
Modified Psychology. "Observing the mountains of ruins to which the cities were reduced, passing through flattened villages, receiving the supplications of despairing burgomasters, seeing populations from which male adults had almost entirely disappeared, made me, as a European, gasp in horror. I also observed that the cataclysm, having reached such a degree, would profoundly modify the psychology of the Germans...
...often carries to Manhattan an unpleasant odor that bodes ill for the play heading for Broadway. Moreover, in the super-envious world of the theater, too many good old friends from around 44th Street like to flock to the nearby roadshows in gleeful hopes of bottling the last gasp...
...life of a hero, and the growth of his legend. Perhaps because the great Spanish champion was precisely the sort of popular hero movie stars are today, El Cid is much more than the pile of irritating evasions and distortions that largely made up a Ten Commandments or (gasp) King of Kings...
...Lloyd's antics on the outside of a skyscraper is also fantastic to watch. Trapped in a mail sack which is resting dangerously on a painter's scaffold being pulled non-chalantly up the side of the building, Lloyd teeters back and forth, causing the audience to first gasp at the suspense and then roar at the near misses of a fatal plunge to the street below. One wonders how he ever survived the situations he mixed himself up in order to produce such amazing comedy...