Word: numbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Correspondent Bruce van Voorst. "Shortly after takeoff, the Ayatullah climbed the spiral staircase to the jumbo jet's lounge section, removed his turban and sandals, curled up on several Air France blankets and slept for 2½ hours," reported van Voorst. "His personal security guard, suffering from a toothache and numb from aspirins, sat at the bottom of the steps. At sunrise, somewhere over Turkey, the Ayatullah said prayers, then was served an omelet for breakfast. When the captain announced that the plane had flown into Iranian airspace and would land in Tehran in half an hour, the Ayatullah craned...
...seems subordinate to the text. If it frequently resembles a circus, it is an indisputably Shakespearean circus, the Bard doing breast-stroke, the actors barnstorming with the kind of relish rarely unleashed in Harvard theater. It never approaches a tragedy of thought and feeling--it doesn't leave you numb (unless with the cold)--only surprised and which is saying a lot for swimming-pool Shakespeare...
...soon as they put a jacket on me I warmed up, regained some strength and considerably more sense. They wanted to make me drop my pack, as Mike had done. By then I knew enough to say no. We were below treeline, and although my fingers were still numb and non-functioning, there was no more snow, only rain. I knew I would make it the rest...
...furnished Travolta with his very own stairway to heaven. So long as the film is accepted for what it is--highly marketable entertainment and nothing else--"Saturday Night Fever" will deliver for most of its two-hour length. And if Norman Wexler's cliche-plagued screenplay leaves you numb in parts, one of those ubiquitous Bee Gee standards is waiting just around the corner to rouse you from your slumber.CENTER SCREEN presents both Frank Mouris [in person] and his "Frank Film," Friday, 8 p.m. at the Carpenter Center. Caroline Ahlfirs Mouris will also speak...
...busted and the windows didn't close all the way. We got to Winter Park around 8:30 a.m.--early, before the lifts started, because Jim was a senior ski patrolman and had to get instructions from the patrol leader before the mountain opened--and I was so numb I wondered if I could...