Word: seeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quite decent human being. Ditto the rest of the staff (exemplary actors all) at the Cull-Loomis School of English for Foreigners. Call it cul-de-sac for short. "Teaching foreigners is a job for failures," says one. Still, in a period of four years, life does seep into the arid crevices of their existence. There are births, marriages, deaths, philanderings and conversions...
Though there have been no large-scale tanker disasters since 1979, lesser oil spills are a common, and underreported, occurrence. Pollution experts estimate that every year 3 million tons of crude seep across U.S. coastal waters. Though feathers may seem a risibly simple solution to a high-technology problem, pillows are being taken seriously. Barry notes with satisfaction, "We already have two oil companies that have stopped laughing and placed trial orders...
...into the fire-flash fear of the moment-even as his skewed comic perspective offers distance, safety, reassurance. As a straight actor, he has the uncanny knack of educing raw emotions from himself and his audience. Vulnerability, untempered rage, urchin craftiness, a rough dignity-all these moods seem to seep through him. In fact, the two Richard Pryors, kamikaze comic and sensitive actor, are overlapping parts of the same intricate talent. If the fates are colorblind, they will start engraving his name on next year's Oscar for his performance as that most exasperating, charming, contradictory of humans-Richard...
...investigations that formed the headlines of the day. It I was to sustain the credibility of the U.S. as a major power. We could-and did-take diplomatic initiatives; we could- and did-utter warnings against threats to our security. But the authority to implement them was beginning to seep away...
...looks awkward at first, ill defined-but only because it makes no concessions to haste. Morandi used no short cuts. He eschewed the sharply abbreviated shapes, high contrasts of tone and grabby oppositions of color that make an image "memorable" on first sight. Instead, the things in his paintings seep deliberately into one's attention. They start vaguely, as little more than silhouettes, a vibration of one low color against another...