Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...performances as "very physical." Nowhere is that physical vocabulary more apparent than in his portrayal of Julian Weston. Neither obtrusively limp-wristed nor so-straight-you'd-never-know-he-was-one, Moriarty captures Julian with a slightly fluttering finger, a momentarily stuttering step, the almost imperceptible lift of his chin. It was not easy to accept the role of a homosexual, he confesses, "because it deals with an area of yourself you don't normally have to deal with." But, he reasoned, if he let his reluctance stop him, "I might as well phone in my resignation...
Sources close to the committee say that it is looking for someone who will be able quickly to lift the reins of power away from Ewart Guinier '33, Afro's chairman and the only tenured member of the department...
...already there order another Pernod and wait. Their wives will not close the shutters or put out dinner until the fog breaks. The priest in the chapel rings the angelus against the swing of the tide, a tinny sound amid the din. He waits for the fog to lift so the people in the town, carrying their flashlights through the streets, can come to evening mass...
...storm was churning overhead. The fog would not lift tonight. I heard a noise in the brush by the stone staircase and there was Francois. His pants were wet to the knees and there was a crusty line of sand up the front of his jacket. He looked frightened, but his eyes shone. He pulled from his pocket a handful of round, smooth stones from the beach. "Bombs!" he said. "I went to the beach and got bombs Le Bon Dieu will hurl these at them and kill them, and then put them in a volcano...
...Nixon, and while he has not been friends with them, he has offered them a great deal of friendly advice in his columns. Reston seems more cynical these days, but he is still holding tightly to those exalted American institutions--the Presidency and the Republic. Nixon still can lift himself out of the Watergate quagmire, Reston says; by revealing the truth, Nixon can save his weakened presidency. Even after the disclosure of an 18-minute gap in one of the Watergate tapes, Reston said that by inviting leaders of Congress to the White House to talk about Watergate, Nixon "made...