Word: lingers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American businessmen will close the books on 1980 this week with some relief. Record interest rates, a deep but very short recession and roaring inflation made 1980 a year best forgotten. Yet the uncertainty that was its hallmark is likely to linger into the new year...
Although I have been out of school for some years now, these frightening memories linger...
...case promises to linger on no matter what the Justice Department decides to do. Greensboro officials, already upset because their city served as a battleground for those they view as "outsiders," were afraid that the decision will only spark further trouble. The verdicts did not trigger the rioting that officials feared, but more than 1,500 people in Guilford and Durham counties participated in peaceful demonstrations to "express citizens' concerns" over the acquittals. In the only violent reaction, a gunman in a speeding car fired shots at acquitted Klansman Smith as he drove along a deserted Lincoln County road...
...camera as she hunkers down on the floor and spreads her denim-clad legs wider than a 21-in. television screen, the teen-age temptress murmurs huskily, "You know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing." Then Photographer Richard Avedon's lens zooms in to linger on Actress-Model Brooke Shields' taut jeans...
...final, striking gesture, the intrepid Pillinger proves that he realizes the seriousness of his task. Goldstien, Magaril, and the highly competent cast that supports them receive no curtain call and the effect is more profound than it first seems. Hours later, the images that linger in your mind are not of smiling actors--fellow students--but of the tortured faces of Equus' desperate souls...