Word: holing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deplorable injury to an essential part of the French heritage." Indeed, the chateau that was once the residence of the Bourbon kings is now one of France's major tourist attractions. Ten galleries displaying some of the country's greatest art treasures were damaged. A huge hole gaped in the floor of a hall devoted to art of the Napoleonic era. Chandeliers lay in a carpet of crystal shards. Rare Louis-Philippe furniture and exquisite ornamental paneling were reduced to matchsticks. Busts of the great men of France's past were broken. Seriously harmed were six paintings...
...school system without parents at its foundation is just like a bucket with a hole...
...feature" never was. I guess I took it for granted that it would always be there, my ace in the hole. The appealing story of an even more appealing athlete and person. And likewise I guess I took it for granted that Bob McDermott would always be around...
...this question and cautiously alights on the side of the monkeys. It is something of a miracle that in Look Who's Talking! she does not end up talking to herself. For the controversial subject of communication between humans and animals can be one long semantic rabbit hole down which any curious Alice can easily lose her orientation. Definitions of language differ among physiologists, behaviorists, linguists and philosophers, with the gloomy Ludwig Wittgenstein once suggesting that even if a lion could talk, we would not understand it. Sapient quadrupeds and "talking" lesser primates could also challenge a sacred precept...
...stud's drive and energy he displayed in Saturday Night Fever or even the nicely observed rebellious indifference he delivers in Welcome Back, Kotter. All he is asked to do here is stand around and smile sweetly, thus leaving what amounts to a large black hole at the center of the film, into which, finally, an entire made-up universe disappears...