Word: howlingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cave paintings and - perhaps most fondly - for its truffles and foie gras. It also happens to be the home of Peripherique, a six-pound black howler monkey and rogue male, whose treetop wanderings inspired local farmers to name him after the high-speed roadway that encircles Paris. Like all howl er monkeys, black or red, Peripherique has an amazingly overdeveloped set of vocal chords: his mere coo, echoing across the valley like the roar of a hungry lion, has startled many an unwary tourist. Rather more astonishing is the fact that he roams the Dordogne at all. Peripherique...
...talents of the highest distinction. Rosemary Harris could mesmerize an audience by reciting the multiplication table. Tovah Feldshuh is a steel butterfly, a young actress of electrifying presence and promise. As Masha, Ellen Burstyn lacks some consuming sensual hunger, but her parting embrace with Vershinin is a silent, agonized howl of lost love...
Impatient Carping. In such a situation, he must maneuver. Last week he caused a howl of outrage on Capitol Hill by cutting $289 million for 19 water-control projects from the proposed budget for fiscal 1978. That was bad enough, but Carter staffers failed to reach all the key figures on the Hill to inform them before the story broke. Arizona Congressman Mo Udall, who heard about the move from a reporter, called Carter's decision "zero-based budgeting gone mad." Western Governors were equally irate. Said Colorado's Governor Richard Lamm: "This...
...publication; the result was four straight quarters in the red. New York stock, with a par value of $10, limped along between $2 and $3 for most of the year. Felker is a minority stockholder--he only owns 10.2 per cent of the company--and other shareholders began to howl for his head. Felker took his troubles to a friend of his, Rupert Murdoch, who offered to buy New York at $5 a share, which Felker refused...
...natural gas produced in one state and burned in another. If the FPC holds down the price, gas producers (mainly big oil companies) berate the agency for not giving them an incentive to explore for new gas reserves. If the FPC lets prices rise, consumers set up a howl-and some 45 million American homes and businesses depend on the fuel for heat or power...