Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...festival, of course, is also a feast, as in food. Says the slow-talking voice over the loudspeaker at the Ninth Annual Antique Powerland Farm Fair in Brooks, Ore. (pop. 400): "Those of you with a rumble in your belly come have some barbecued chicken and corn on the cob." Many of the 2,000 or so who were gawking at the steam-engined tractors and thrashers did just that. Gilroy, Calif., which claims the title of the Garlic Capital of the World, held its First Annual Garlic Festival last week, and Lloyd Harris explained: "There's something about...
...slow down, huh?" he pleaded. The wolf was now treading familiar woods, full of scent and semen...
...gorilla-face, slow down...
...people, has dropped sharply. The flow of refugees from Viet Nam declined from 110,000 during May and June to an estimated 22,000 in July, apparently as one result of last month's U.N. -sponsored 65-country conference on refugees in Geneva. There, Hanoi officials pledged to slow the exodus from Viet Nam, which in four years has consisted of 550,000 ethnic Chinese, who are being forced out because they are a hated minority, and 350,000 Vietnamese who do not want to live under Communist rule. Ironically, however, the curb on the exodus will only increase...
...occasion Haigh substitutes another word for the one Shakespeare wrote; at times he fails to heed the pronunciation required by the verse [exTIRpate, wronged, solEMnized]. His lengthy narration at the start is too slow, and his famous "revels now are ended" speech lacks sufficient musicality. He is much better in the abjuration soliloquy--which many have thought to be the playwright's own valedictory, although Shakespeare went on to collaborate on Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen, the lost Cardenio, and perhaps Sir Thomas More. Haigh has a long way to go before he matches Carnovsky's 1960 Prospero...