Word: shiverings
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...girl and her friend, the shoes are an event. They fall about each other, laugh and shiver, hold one another. When they've finished they bum Djakarta cigarettes from a nearby skinhead. The girl turns back to me, looking bored. Her eyes, brown and indolent, hover above and beyond, taking in the passersby, the shopfronts, the traffic, her friends...
Botha: Sentimental. Oh, I'm far from that. Damn worried is a better adjective for my state right now. A shiver went through me when you mentioned gold a minute ago. With all this angry activity reaching levels of Sharpville in 1960 and Soweto in 1976, that miners strike scheduled for August 25 seems to be a real threat. I mean if all 400,000 Black miners walked out, we'd lose more than half of our exports. And we've only got 275,000 police and military officers. How could they quell a worker uprising much larger than...
...Kremlin share this assumption. They know that given the present state of "nuke first ask questions later." the antimissile defense would have a mop-up role. And the prospect of taking out the United States in an area of American technological predominance makes she leaders in the Kremlin shiver...
...Give us Animal House.' I gave it to them but tried to layer it with some humanity and real characters. I didn't think anything was tasteless as long as it was funny." But tasteless is not really in the vocabulary of a gross-out scriptwriter. Some movie people shiver when they think of great film scenes: Gloria Swanson descending the stairs at the end of Sunset Boulevard, or Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains walking into the fog at the conclusion of Casablanca. Gross-out writers receive a similar thrill when they remember John Belushi filling his mouth with mashed...
...losses keep on mounting: $85 million in the last fiscal year, $12.4 million in the last quarter for which there are figures. So what does this desperate tycoon do? He sells half the shop to an Australian press baron, whose very name, Rupert Murdoch, causes grown men to shiver with fear and occasionally loathing. The studio is saved...