Word: interrupter
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...short: see it. Ignore the program. It's a good production of a great comedy. The attempts to evoke the sinister do not quite succeed, because they interrupt rather than support the play's flow. They are too contrived, and we cannot accept them for long enough to have them scare us. But if you're looking for good acting, directing, and production, you can't go wrong...
Harvard students and library employees are expressing curiosity and confusion over a series of loud noises which interrupt the usual calm in the walk between Widener and Pusey libraries...
...ailing Mao grew increasingly helpless to halt his wife's machinations. When summoned to Mao's sickbed, the hardhearted Chiang Ch'ing at first refused to interrupt a poker game with her cronies. Later she tried to murder him and following Mao's death, she then plotted the assassination of China's new Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng...
Both Cantor and Frank B. Freidel, Warren Professor of American History, said yesterday mysterious noises from pipes at both sides of the room often interrupt their classes in Sever...
...that matter, so do the horrors. They are too much of a bad thing. The reader soon longs for Newman to interrupt with some sustained comment and analysis. What generalizations he does provide are unexceptionable but also unexceptional ("We are all safer when language is specific. It improves our chances of knowing what is going on"). In his 207 pages, there is scarcely as much intellectual substance as George Orwell offers in the 15 pages of his celebrated 1946 essay Politics and the English Language...