Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acting "to insure the protection of public investors and the maintenance of a fair and orderly market." One firm, A.G. Becker of Chicago, banned all credit on five particularly jittery stocks. These moves depressed the gaming issues, but not for long. Indeed, the gambling-stock rebound last week helped spark a broad market rally. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 28 points, closing...
...spark which Herold could sometime provide with a big save may have to come from elsewhere, and that could be the forward line. Matt Bowyer is taking a leave this fall, but Dave Eaton, who played varsity his freshmen and sophomore years before taking last year off, has returned. And the rest of the line is intact, led by Nelson(13 goals) and the two sophomores, Walter Diaz(6 goals) and Alberto Villar...
...short scene in which Dick Button, playing a TV color babbler, describes the moves of a Japanese wrestler in terms of figure skating, the only sport his character knows anything about. This is an accurate satire of TV sports reporting, but nothing else in the film has any spark whatsoever. - John Skow
...spark that ignites this particular witch trial lies in the perfervid erotic imagination of Sister Jeanne (Martha Henry), prioress of St. Ursula's Convent in the town of Loudun. She tells her confessor that in tormented night hours, she is forced to utter obscene words and participate in obscene acts. The nuns in her charge are similarly afflicted. In a fit of possession, with her strangulated sepulchral voice suggesting The Exorcist, Sister Jeanne reveals the devil inside -Grandier-a neighboring vicar whom she has never actually seen...
...changes came on all fronts. From above, Dean Henry Rosovsky was leading the Faculty of Arts and Sciences into its first major revision of the undergraduate curriculum in a decade--a revision that would spark considerable student opposition and place the ill-defined phrase "Core Curriculum" into a hundred newspaper columns. From below, students pressed for a new form of self-government, as asembly that would give students the powerful voice many believed they would never attain under the nine-year-old system of student-faculty advisory committees. And finally, from the outside world there arose a different kind...