Word: quiverful
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...unsuccessfully forever. The U.S. has a much bigger and better variety of nuclear warheads than the Soviets. The Soviets can only close that gap by continuing with secret tests while U.S. tests stand suspended. Central Russia has plenty of underground salt mines where nuclear explosions would make hardly a quiver on a far-off seismograph. And at least one top U.S. official says that the West has lately recorded some "pretty big bangs" inside the U.S.S.R.-although whether they were of nuclear nature remains open to question...
Talking to the child who travels with the murderers, a servant says, "People quiver like a leaf in the storm, afraid of what they know--and what they don't." He is clearly delivering a message, more clearly because he is so out of tone with the film. This same conscious search for certainty and safety links the knight of The Seventh Seal, the aging doctor of Wild Strawberries, the Magician, and even the distraught schoolboy of the earlier and less sophisticated Torment...
...famed Cordon Bleu school, a master of haute cuisine. In the posts where he has cooked for the Chauvels-Paris, Bern, New York -the mere memory of his Pauppiette de Sole à la Richelieu or Cotelettes de Pigeone à l'Espagnole is enough to make taste buds quiver and eyes grow moist. Bui's fabulous sauces, prepared from top-secret recipes, are his spécialit...
This may be one of the oldest marriage stories in the world. Then why read it? Because Author Barstow often makes the human situation quiver on the page. Vic tells the story in the first person-and in rich, casual slang-with a kind of boyish innocence that is no mere storytelling contrivance. Everything from inexperienced sex to the showdown with mother-in-law has the edge of simple truth on it. In the end, the fact that Vic's story has been played out so often before wherever boy met girl does no damage; on the contrary...
...they are all but afloat in nervous perspiration. Red trembles and his eyes are alight with tears as, in the end, he inhales his grand ration of applause; and the people who swarm backstage for his autograph find an obliging man, usually dressed in an old kimono, whose lips quiver and whose hands shake...