Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Will, the blind boarder so afraid of pity he covers himself with a brittle shellac of sarcasm, slowly comes out of his shell in the warm atmosphere of the Spaulding's farm. One of the most effective scenes comes when he and Possom, Edna's young daughter, stand outside a room in which Frank, her brother, is "getting a licking." Terrified by the sounds of whipping within, Possom quietly slips her hand into Mr. Will's. The simple gesture and the expression of bewilderment and joy that slowly spreads across Mr. Will's face convey a host of emotions...
Part of the dead weight on the Politburo is the remorselessly accumulating array of Soviet internal problems, ranging from agricultural failure to shrinking productivity to endemic corruption. Recent experience has been that East-West tensions fester when the Soviet leadership withdraws into a shell. The sight of Andrei Gromyko's familiar face in the U.S. may be a signal that the Kremlin is aware of the need for a new and healthier equilibrium...
Even for the uninitiated viewer, the ancestral figures truly project the qualities the Maoris attribute to them: ihi (power), wehi (fear) and wana (authority). Often as grotesque as gargoyles, the heads are covered with the distinctive Maori designs used as tattoos. The slanty, abalone-shell eyes are as impenetrable as mirrors. Sometimes a broad-based tongue juts out in the Maori gesture of raging self-assertion. The broad, lumpy body may be scrunched down in the warrior's crouch, or, ready to spring, the fighter may hold a paddle-shaped club designed to strike a blow at an enemy...
...does play the part. At times, in fact, he flirts with overplaying it, right up to the tortoise-shell handle of his antique...
...solar system passes through the central plane, it may collide with one of the massive dust clouds. While the cloud itself would have little graviational effect on the earth or the sun, its gravitational pull would. The strong lure would perturb the Oort cloud--a vast spherical shell of trillions of icy particles which surround the solar system...