Word: lullingly
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...Balance a cinematic flow is call upon the considerable talents of Cinematographer David Watkin. Having made that excellent choice, Richardson seems to have disappeared. Watkin uses a kind of embellished natural lighting. His uncluttered compositions can shock the eye with a shaft of light from a table lamp or lull it with a suggestion of the dark distances between night and morning. His craftsmanlike photography, at least, makes the film worth looking...
Skinner then added three rapid buckets to center John Murphy's 20-footer on the baseline to push the Minutemen in front, 43-42. Harvard did not snap out of its defensive lull until it gave UMass a seven-point lead and lost point-man Griffin on fouls, with 12:15 remaining on the clock...
...intelligence expert: "The Israelis are right there, and they should know. This time they did not read the signals right." By last week an Israeli Foreign Ministry official privately admitted that, "what was coming out of Cairo was a smokescreen. What Sadat was trying to do was obvious-lull us into a security that was not there." But Israel also helped lull itself into a sense of false security. Since the devastating victory over Egypt, Syria and Jordan in the Six-Day War, Israel's political and military leaders have evinced a confidence that may have become self-deluding...
...Richard Nixon, the lull in the Watergate tempest is over. This week Senator Sam Ervin's committee reopens its public hearings, and by next week the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington will rule on whether the President must surrender his secret Watergate tapes to a federal grand jury. In addition, more indictments are expected shortly in connection with both the Watergate break-in and the burglary at the office of the psychiatrist of Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg. Said one presidential adviser: "It's like sitting here waiting for 24,000 volts. You know...
...Lull. The shooting did not noticeably subside until the government ordered rocket attacks by air on a Palestinian camp near the airport shortly before sunset on Thursday. Two Hunter jet fighter-bombers of the Lebanese air force made 14 low-level sweeps over the camp. It was the first time that Arab planes had bombed a Palestinian refugee camp. President Franjieh doubtless felt that the end justified his means. As smoke from the rockets rose over the camp, the ground fighting abruptly died down, not only in the camp area but, seemingly by coincidence, elsewhere as well. Soon after, another...