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...tumultuous camerawork mar the development of the scene.) A shot of a drowned girl, entwined in the arms of her dead lover, as they are washed up onto a muddy shore is equally effective. (Although, it is mistakenly intercut with shots of Birken and Ursula making love. Properly, the omen is directed at Gerald of whose fears it is much more illustrative.) One of the film's concluding images comes closest to suggesting the metaphoric associations flowing beneath Lawrence's narrative. Gerald, after breaking from Gudrun in a scene that parallels Birken's rupture with Hermione, wanders off, exhausted...
...expected to beat Brown and Rutgers. If we didn't beat these people, it would have been a bad omen," Porter said...
Whenever the stargazers of ancient Babylon focused their attention on Mars, they regarded its reddish orange glow as an omen of bloodshed and disaster. Looking more objectively at the red planet through powerful telescopes, modern astronomers have attributed its odd color to deposits of iron-rich minerals like limonite. Now two former University of Massachusetts researchers have proposed a new explanation of the puzzling Martian hue. During a recent meeting at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, Physicists William T. Plummer and Robert K. Carson reported that parts of Mars may be covered by a strange kind...
...well as the South to abandon segregated schools. Actually, the measure amounted to acquiescence to more and more Southern delay in complying with the Supreme Court's 16-year-old desegregation ruling. The vote revived the coalition of Republicans and Southern and Border State Democrats -a bad omen for future civil rights fights...
...area near the Sudanese border, looking for rebel bands heading south in search of water. At day's end, Garros set up an ambush around one of the major water routes. The setting sun, red with dust, soon grazed the horizon like a biblical omen in the sky. A few seconds later it was night; there is no twilight in Africa, and darkness comes as unexpectedly as death...