Word: quickening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little happens, except what Passer calls "life as it is, unheroic, unexceptional but nonetheless interesting." More than interesting, Lighting reflects a humanist tradition seldom seen on the screen since the early films of René Clair, Renoir and De Sica. The young city visitors quicken the tempo of existence for Bambas' family. Everyone goes off to supply music at a country funeral. Later the menfolk, including Grandpa, get together with the village pharmacist to form a string quartet in a rehearsal sequence that is disrupted by intramural arguments and arthritic aches, with additional time called by Peter...
...time since 1939, become one continent again. No one was ready to predict when the new Europe will come. Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle, 75, arriving in Moscow to rebuild the "proud tower" of European nationalism from the Atlantic to the Urals, was doing what he could to quicken the pace...
...nude that your eyes quicken for ruth, the white horse, bawdy as the Apocalypse, tail a flame, his testicles asway, steps into his sunlight harness...
...five states principally affected by the civil rights movement. The 1965 Voting Rights Act, followed this year by the U.S. Supreme Court's abolition of state poll taxes, has already wrought subtle changes in the style and structure of Southern politics. The transformation is bound to quicken as more and more Negroes are enfranchised...
...quicken the game, he suggested that an intentional pass should be automatic without the pitcher's having to throw four balls, that the ball should not be chucked around the infield after every out, and that relief pitchers who have been warming up for seven innings" should not throw eight warmup pitches when they enter the game...