Word: openable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gesture was eloquent. Emerging from the doorway of Air Force One on the floodlit tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base last week, an exhausted Jimmy Carter greeted several thousand welcomers by flinging open his arms. It was a movement that oddly combined a sense of triumph with just a hint of martyrdom. Said Carter: "I believe that God has answered our prayers...
...were left with no idea of what taking that "risk" would involve for any of the characters on stage. However much we might agree with the revolutionary tone of the conclusion, because it was devoid of intellectual direction for the emotion, it became just emotionalism. It was called "open ending" because it was an empty ending...
Manos said Wednesday's meeting was "an open discussion where we rehashed all the old arguments for and against divestiture...
...carpenter, a makers of suspense shockers, scare pictures a good hack working an old saw. The wood may be warped and a little green, but he is not going very deeply against the grain. Whether he might rank among the architects of the traditions he so admires is an open question. Whether he can resist the beveling and varnish a big budget often imposes remains to be seen...
Only when I can't get chopsticks," and so on. Mabry Jenkins' open-eyed adventures among the Philistines are at times tedious at times banal, at times almost hilarious but this book has limited appeal--you might read it because you read North Dallas Forty, in which case you won't like it as well as you like the previous book. Or you might read it because you read the sports pages and rooted for the Wehrmacht in the latest Super Bowl, in which case you won't like it all. Or you might read it because...