Word: smoldering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prick of a needle eliminates balloons. To this end, she doggedly pries apart relationships and scrutinizes the pieces for wear. It turns out that the traits she rebels against in friends often lurk unacknowledged in herself, so that an end to friendships ends external friction, while the sparks smolder inside her. When a printer named Gonzalo friendships ends external friction, while the sparks smolder inside her. When a printer named Gonzalo no longer intimidates her with his violence Nin sees it in herself. She resists the "physical and mental promiscuity" in Henry Miller while they are together in Paris...
...Three Musketeers takes the Dumas novel's action line, a star-studded cast, and an Errol Flynn swashbuckle approach, with slapstick sloshed in every few minutes to douse whatever drama or gravity or sentimentality might begin to smolder. Lester and screenwriter George MacDonald Fraser don't play with any matches here--no pretensions, no messages, no appearance of over-exertion. It's all plot and pretty faces. This approach becomes more than just a safety precaution because it brings out a wholesome sense of exhilaration in the actors. as if they all finally have a chance to show their skills...
Even though the major controversies of last year over the appointments of a new City Manager and School Superintendent have been resolved, the coals continue to smolder and, on occasion, a spark ignites. The CCA won one and lost one last season. But in succeeding to replace former School Superintendent Frank Frisoli '35 with the highly-touted Alflorence Cheatham of Chicago, it aroused the ire of half of Cambridge -- a Pyrrhic political victory at best. In losing the City Manager fiasco, the CCA also lost its majority on the City Council. Councillor Henry F. Owens III, a black attorney...
Constitutional guarantees of civil rights were suspended in Canada last week after French separatists kidnaped officials to dramatize their claim for sovereignty. The southern tip of Italy barricaded itself against the rest of the country to assert a historical fealty to its traditional capital. Northern Ireland continued to smolder among its centuries-old religious hatreds. These and countless other.'atavistic conflicts are now waged with the newest weapons...
...Tempers are cooler now, though many of last Spring's fears still smolder," it continued, "The QHC wants to take advantage of the more rational atmosphere...