Word: prowls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...argument-true up to a point, but contaminated by a certain elitism and inattention to the present. Tour groups have changed the nature and freedom and spontaneity of travel. But the backpacking young travel with as much energy and expertise as Waugh did, and with much less money. They prowl the world a little outside the law, at great risk-dope smugglers sometimes, or else the dreamy, suburbanite Leave-It-to-Beaver youth between ashrams, on the road to Katmandu. The trouble is that these wanderers rarely can write very well, or bother...
...needs to escalate into the play's most demanding scenes. Surely her approach is the one Director William Friedkin wanted; his work in films (The French Connection, The Exorcist) is notable for its harrowing power, not its subtlety. This leaves Max von Sydow, as the doctor, to prowl the set like a lion tamer confronting an unpredictable new beast. He need not worry. Bancroft's lioness isn't hungry enough to eat him. She has already devoured Kempinski's lamb of a play...
...last month of Christian Chapman, the American chargé d'affaires in Paris. It has been accused of sending hitmen to assassinate Washington's Ambassador to Italy Maxwell Rabb. And now U.S. intelligence authorities are investigating a report that agents of Muammar Gaddafi may be on the prowl for even bigger targets: President Ronald Reagan, Vice President George Bush, Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger...
Some folk tales are based at least partly on fact. What New Yorker has not heard of the giant alligators that prowl the city's sewer system, descendants of smaller ones brought home from Florida vacations and flushed down the toilet? Brunvand cites evidence that a few underground gators may have existed. Yet a modern legend's staying power seems to have little to do with its veracity. Since the late 1960s, there have been reports from around the country of shoppers in discount stores being bitten by poisonous snakes or insects hidden in some piece of imported...
Europe offered Irving a large slice of the bohemian life. He explored by car and motorcycle, met painters and poets, worked out in gyms with burly grapplers who grunted in Slavic. He also met a man with an old trained bear, an animal that would prowl his future books...