Word: itches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wind that blows no one in the Middle East any good. It picks up hot air and dust as it sweeps across Africa and the Sinai Peninsula, bringing a variety of afflictions in its northerly thrust. The moistureless air causes feet to swell painfully, noses and eyes to itch and asthmatics to gasp for breath. The khamsin can also madden men. Automobile accidents are far more frequent when it is blowing, crime rates increase by as much as 20% and tempers rise with the mercury. Judges in some Arab countries take a lenient attitude toward crimes committed during the khamsin...
...whole film has been pointing-the parting of the friends in London-and instead, he concludes with the cheap sentimentality of Gus' reunion with his children. The film then ends with an ambiguity-not the provoking open-endedness of good questions raised, but the nagging sense of an itch left unscratched...
...make great capital of abstract terms in order to mask their chief occupations. So men speak publicly today of "pacification" when they really mean violence and death-dealing on a large scale. But the rhetoric of activist groups also has its seductions and dangers. Sometimes the language masks an itch for revenge and violence, and contains nothing new, whether by way of spiritual resources or imagination. The most accurate thing that can be said about it is that it has despaired of communication...
...they find out soon enough. Masters tells them they're drunk, and they are-happy drunk. He tells them they itch, and they scratch uncontrollably. He tells them the people next to them smell terrible. They sniff disgustedly...