Word: jelled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene is evidence of what might have been. But all the different elements involved never quite jell together. Characters break into deeply emotional songs for no apparent reason, and, until Chuck ran for the doctor, I completely missed the leading lady's attempted suicide. Writers structure musicals carefully, following high crises with dramatic relief. Director Glovsky does not make this structure apparent...
...would test his jelled compounds by burning them inside a wood frame, and then measuring the weight of the frame after the incendiary had burned out. The lighter the wood was, the more effective the jell...
...psychological maze of anger and nurtured rejection. Severance, a Pulitzer Prize winning scientist, art critic, and pop intellectual, feels that his status as a celebrity is the source of his troubles. Here Berryman projects his own sense of inadequacy onto Severance. But his strong personal tone doesn't jell with the Rennaissance-man character he creates. Many of Berryman's best poems have been exercises in self-purgation. He lived in and by his writing; it was a form of analysis for him; almost a religion. He could pick no stronger voice for himself than that of the real alcoholic...
Behavior is not a liquid that sets like Jell-O into the mold of a building. Yet all building implies some ordering of life. Fine spaces do not "happen"; they are designed, either by consensus over a span of years (like the town plan of San Gimignano in Tuscany) or else by the authoritative work of one man. There is no consensus of the first kind in America: witness the slurping tide of chaotic architectural mutants that passes for an urban experience in any U.S. city. So we are left with the individual architect as form giver: the responsibilities remain...
...Crimson coach said after reviewing the films of the Indiana game that he was convinced Harvard could jell into a winning team. "We did a lot of excellent things in the game; things I didn't notice when I watched the game. The films showed that we made a number of films posses on offense which were exactly what I have been looking for," Harrison said...