Word: lulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staffers intermittently stare at the clock. The earlier conversations have largely died down. During the lull, VanDyke reflects on the object of all this waiting...
...sang Walking After Midnight, she found a lonesomeness whose locus was closer to the soul than the heart. When the Cowboy Junkies cover Cline's tune on their just released RCA album, The Trinity Session, they bring something extra of their own to it, something haunted. In the false lull of Margo Timmins' lovely voice and measured phrasing there is the suggestion that whoever's up after midnight may be not only walking, but stalking...
...just basic human cruelty -- what happens when people are in a room together. It's not inhuman, which is why it's so scary." By then, the moviegoer -- a witness-voyeur, just like the bystanders -- is ready to have his prejudices twisted from compassion to horror. "We wanted to lull the audience and then turn things around," Topor explains. "We were saying, 'As a spectator, you're part of the problem. What would you have done...
With the win, the Crimson pulled itself out of a lull it had been swimming in since a surprise victory over Army earlier in the season...
...telling me about how many FORTUNE 500 companies were represented in the city and how much higher in altitude and more westerly in longitude it was than anyone might have imagined -- anyone, they must have meant, who had never met an Atlanta booster. Then, if there was a lull in the conversation, they would sometimes say, "You know, Atlanta is the fourth target on the Kremlin's map of nuclear destruction...