Word: riotousness
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...streets and theaters. He spoke, and Paris purred. His likeness blossomed everywhere, on clocks and rings and walking sticks. Terra-cotta Franklin medallions were served up by the thousand but could not satisfy the demand. The portraitists wore him out. He could be held responsible for a riotous explosion of bad poetry...
...alone in its enchantment with the cosmos. In recent years an odd sort of celestial rapture has spread across the country. Whether it's driven by a longing for a larger world, for post-9/11 meaning or simply for the pleasure of a silent field beneath a riotous sky, more and more Americans are falling in love with the heavens. There's Erica Block, 15, of Lincoln, Neb., who sold her horse and emptied her bank account to buy a $1,000 telescope that, she boasts, is taller than she is. There's Evan Chan, a Los Angeles tour...
...Highland” and the fantastic “Gweebara Bridge” infuse The Blue Idol with the toe-tapping beats that Irish music is best known for. Altan could stand to break free from their languid pace by further realizing the strength of these riotous tunes...
...riotous ferment that is daily life in Boston, the local government wants to add another onerous rule—an unfair municipal regulation. The Boston City Council is considering a resolution calling for universities to withhold degrees from students who do not pay their parking tickets. This rule is dubious in its conception and wrong-headed in its approach...
...featured films during the week-long festival displayed a remarkable variety of emotional and stylistic registers. The opening film, Dazzling, at which both the director Li Xin and producer Sara Chen were present, is a racy, disjointed pastiche in riotous color, set against a pulsating techno soundtrack, with palpable influences as various as Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire and magic realism. According to the director, a member of the up-and-coming Sixth Generation, “In their films, the technique compensates for the lack of compelling, or serious, subject matter.” In fact, technique...