Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University Health Service's emergency ward, 17 students sat for almost half an hour before receiving treatment from hospital officials. By 6:30 a.m., about 25 students had come to the emergency room, and most of them had been attended...
NORA shifted her eyes back and forth and no one spoke. Who is this girl? I asked myself. I wanted to look at her, feast upon her--but something scared me. This haunting face, the eyes, the silence in the room, the shadows, the fire, the quarry outside where men had plunged to unearned deaths, the black trees, the snow, the strange story that Tim was filming, these people who did not talk to each other...
...Nora went to the bedroom to go over the lines, I looked through the living room's glass doors. The clear night kept them from being opaque and black, as they had been the night before. And instead of seeing only reflections from the living room in the glass, I could see the stars, a crescent of a moon--and the quarry: a vague white cloud floating in the landscape...
Each light was in turn dismantled and packed up. With each dismantling, the room got darker. Tim sat on a bench next to the nearly dead fire. He looked at no one. He said nothing. He was totally in shadows...
After several trips, Tommy had taken everything up to the road. Now the room was almost totally dark. We had found some tiny holes in the wooden ceiling, and it turned out that these holes were lights controlled by a dimmer near the door. We turned them on, and pools of pale light fell on the flagstone floor. No one spoke; everyone stared out the glass doors or at the floor or at nowhere in particular...