Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...light on ex-Senator Joe Ball's telephone flashed with an incoming call one day last week but there was no answer. Joe Ball's old Senate office was empty; the name plate had been taken off the door, and Joe was gone. So were a lot of other Republicans. All around the vaulted, marble buildings on top of Capitol Hill the Democrats were moving...
...inscription, seven feet long and nine feet high, concerns the old Zoroastrian religion and will take several months to translate. It is expected to shed new light on the Parthian and Sasanian Empire...
...also has its occupational hazards. Last summer Burke was clicking the traffic light and directing a divinity student when there was a low rumbling and Burke stuck his head out of the window. He was greeted by an uncomfortably large Jordan Marsh truck which rammed the booth, picked it up, and deposited it in front of a jewelry store on Brattle Street. The booth was somewhat crumpled and Burke wrenched his shoulder, which still annoys him during damp weather, but the Jordan Marsh man was very apologetic, and Burke dismisses the incident. He figures the odds are strong against...
...deranged mind was merely held up as an interesting object to look at. "The Snake Pit," however, void of all hints of Hollywood glamor, achieves the startling effect of entering the diseased mind and reflecting its horrors and fears--its despair in groping in darkness for a ray of light. The mind is not exhibited but analyzed; the audience not merely understands it but feels its tensions. These powerful effects are achieved without off-focus blurs, mad music, or tilting rooms, but with fine direction and expert acting. The one photographic trick is used in picturing the writhing mass...
Witnesses reported that the field was glazed with ice and that there was a light fog at the time of take...