Word: sparking
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Ashong was the first of them all. A captivating orator who could hypnotize his audience with unceasing hand motions and a spark in his eye, Ashong was all over the campus, in the Black Students’ Association (BSA), Kuumba, the Haitian Alliance, and occasionally at Asian American Association meetings—when they had ice cream...
Around the same time, Weiler also started experimenting with the BMF e-mail list— originally used only for publicizing meetings—to spark political debate. After sending out a few news articles that piqued his interest, members gradually warmed to the idea, flooding the once-barren space with lively discussions...
...quiet young man named John Morgan (Tim McInnerny) is a surprise guest at a dinner party whose host is Wetherby's favorite schoolteacher, Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave). He strikes a spark somewhere inside Jean's loneliness. The next day he stops by, chats a bit, then puts a gun in his mouth and splatters his brains across her kitchen wall. The shock of this scene, which sends horror-show gasps through a movie house of jaded adults, also blasts the story back to 1953, dramatizing the abortive affair that the teenage Jean (played by Redgrave's daughter Joely Richardson...
...Over,” was a rare fast-tempo break in the program, as more lilting slower pieces like “Dacey’s Memory” were set to rolling, soothing violin crescendos. Of course, just when the music became lulling, a sudden spark of energy in each dance would undoubtedly be unfurled. In “Dacey’s Memory,” this came in the form of dissonant piano notes that climaxed to a frustrated crash of chords and immediately caused a fall to silence in the soundtrack...
...Sometimes, it’s just a spark that ignites...