Word: peering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...February celebrating Tet to anti-aircraft crews drilling, still watching and waiting. In a stunning, red-filtered rapid-fire sequence, the film then returns to the awful scene last Christmas. Air raid sirens wail in the background, Hanoi's people retrace familiar paths to their bomb shelters, gun crews peer upward into the darkness, bombs carpet the screaming night, missiles streak skyward, periodically to rendezvous with their unwilling targets...
...room now is flat, with an archaic dusty flatness as if a civilization had caved in and fallen, here. The shadows in the corners are only undusted momentoes of her personal failings; her defeated cities. She would not peer into them. They were without surprise, and without clues to the mystery of the magical chanting...
...usher, a young kid with straw-colored hair sticking out from under an oversize cap, bends to peer inside a dragster, then remembers that he is an official usher and quickly straightens up. "We gotta keep our eye out for ruffians," he says. "Haven't seen...
...convention of last spring; certainly the attitudes of the Faculty toward student representation on the CRR is a sign of what our collegues, to whom we have some responsibility, consider appropriate even now. Professor Wilson recently described accurately and eloquently in a different context the weight of peer pressure on undergraduates in critically responsible positions. It is a pressure that might in certain circumstances be very awkward to deal with in the use of master keys in our communities. I should prefer to avoid that risk, concern for my responsibility will end only if the President decides explicitly to undertake...
...delight to have the show in Manhattan. Playwright Home's three central characters are titled racing stewards. Imagine their clubroom pal lor when they discover that a stakes race has been rigged by the wife of the senior board member (Wilfrid Hyde-White). When a priggish socialist peer threatens to expose the affair, this Britannic trio waives the rules and brings the bounder to heel...