Word: lullingly
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...that Duke and Kate pretty well directed themselves. More than once, Wayne stormed at Millar for overshooting scenes. "Goddammit," Duke boomed, "we can say these lines just so many times before they stop making sense." When the flustered director tried to proceed, there was a momentary lull and confusion. "Hey," Wayne shouted, "Mister Director, you're supposed to say 'action,' aren...
...slightly negative or flat in the first half. There should be an upturn toward the end of the year created by increases in consumer spending and somewhat improved conditions in housing. Nevertheless, 1975 will probably mark the second consecutive year of a decline in output, a lull unmatched in a generation...
...guardians of the Oval Office in Richard Nixon's law-and-order Administration. Now they sat on the uncomfortable side of the law as defendants in a Washington federal courtroom, separated by a vacant chair-and a frosty silence. For 45 awkward, painful minutes, during a courtroom lull in the jury selection process, John Ehrlichman, baggy-eyed and subdued, bent purposefully over a yellow legal pad. The normally dour H.R. Haldeman, his crew cut turned sleekly long, glanced tentatively at his onetime friend, but got no encouragement. Before stepping out to smoke his pipe, a pale, drawn, considerably older...
...Warnings. Then there are the guerrillas. Although there has been a lull in terrorism, most observers feel that the leftist Peronists and the out-and-out guerrillas have only been taking stock. Both the Marxist People's Revolutionary Army (E.R.P.) and the Montoneros, left-wing Peronist guerrillas, have issued warnings of new revolutionary activity. Wrote Domingo Menna, a high E.R.P. officer, "We are at the beginning of a revolutionary situation...
...Angels on their Harley-Davidsons turned in convincing performances as Visigoths at the gates of suburbia. Easy Rider could not keep off the grass, and Evel Knievel, that star spangled Icarus of the carnival circuit, gives young minibike owners potentially lethal delusions of grandeur. But now, during the lull in the great gas panic of '74, comes a 46-year-old Minnesotan and writer of computer manuals, who makes the motorcycle not only respectable but also a focus of mental and spiritual health...