Word: moldering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reading restaurant menus at two, got out of high school at twelve, earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Miami at the sagacious age of 14 and graduated from Miami's law school when he was 16. But Prodigy Stephen Baccus had to molder away until the senescent age of 17 before he was able to become the youngest known person ever sworn in as a lawyer in the U.S. After he passed the bar exam this summer, his father Miami Attorney James Baccus petitioned the Florida Supreme Court for a waiver of the 18-year...
...sentence. Some of his song titles sounded like cuts on a Pigmeat Markham party record (Head, Soft and Wet). If there was a unifying theme to his lyrics-indeed, a governing obsession-it was that carnal knowledge is the ultimate wisdom. Party till you drop, make out till you molder: self-realization through rutting...
Back in Norway, old and ailing, Peer meets a mysterious stranger in a black business suit. This is the Button Molder (Walter Atamaniuk), who tells him he is to be melted down as "damaged goods" and recast with "the mass of humanity." Essentially, the Button Molder likens Peer to those whom Dante consigned to Limbo: "That caitiff choir of the angels, who were not rebellious, nor were faithful to God; but were for themselves." Peer flees to the mountain hut where Solveig, ever faithful and now blind, cradles him in her arms. But neither Ciulei's direction nor Fiorenzo...
...consigning a nosy reporter to cement sneakers in the East River, Hollywood offhandedly dumped Richert's films. Winter Kills, which twisted an assassination scenario into high-voltage satire, was pulled from release after a few weeks. Success, a screwball comedy on the doppelganger theme, was left to molder in its distributor's vaults. But like the dogged romantic hero Jeff Bridges plays in both these films, Richert did not give up. He got back the rights, recut his movies and is now distributing them himself...
...been far more than just a loyal lieutenant. His eight years as a top executive of Bechtel Group Inc., an engineering and construction firm with extensive activities abroad, make him the only high Administration official with expertise in international affairs. Shultz has acted as a teacher, moderator and molder of important positions. Says one official who has been working with him: "He has a subtle, effective way of exercising leadership...