Word: shiverers
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...drew sketches and wrote about herself and her friends. On Modigliani: "All he did was growl; he used to make me shiver from head to foot." On Jean Cocteau: "He gave me a necklace fit for a queen." On Utrillo: "Once, after I had been posing for him, I went around to take a look and was knocked off my pins to discover that he had been drawing a little country house...
...abrupt loosening of direct controls -and the promise of more relaxation to come-sent an expectant shiver through the U.S. economy. As Ike Eisenhower predicted, it brought some early measurable ups & downs in prices (see BUSINESS). But the ups & downs were secondary to the historic significance of the move: the U.S. was moving consciously and positively toward a freer economy...
...they had scaled the highest peak ever topped by man. In Annapurna, Herzog's story of the expedition in the spring of 1950, the victory becomes a literary anticlimax. What is vastly more exciting than the climb is the return trip, the harrowing ordeal-by-nature calculated to shiver the spirit of the toughest armchair explorer. Author Herzog-an engineer by profession, a mountain climber by religion-is no great shakes as a writer. His account of the trip to Nepal, the organization of the expedition, and the search for a route up the mountain sometimes reads like...
There are still naive moviegoers like myself who feel a shiver run up our spines when the music swells and a troup of horses charge over a hill. Hollywood in general, and Ivanhoe in particular, will thrive on people like us. Changing from spectacle to spectacle, Ivanhoe entertains even though it leaves large vacuums of dialogue and acting in its wake...
...into the furnaces to keep the glass at an average 800° C. A master can complete a small animal figure in less than ten seconds, yet it still takes a full day for the large pieces. And sometimes even the most expert craftsman watches his hours of labor shiver into fragments as the glass cools...