Word: spilling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hates-the wife who intimated there was something unnatural between him and his now-dead closest friend. In an atmosphere of conjugal and family pretenses, accusations and resentments. Brick and his father, during a lacerating scene, blurt out some ugly truths. Thereafter other revelations-about sex, illness, greed, dislike-spill forth during tense family scenes...
Kohn has made it a passionate catharsis, and the inappropriate spill of emotion at this crucial point vitiates the cycle as a whole...
...great bull market stumbled to its knees last week. In five days stocks, as rated by the Dow-Jones industrial average, took their worst spill in 15 years. The selling started slowly on the first day of the week. Next day, as brokers crowded around the 18 trading posts of the New York Stock Exchange, the trickle of sales turned into a deluge. On four out of five days prices dropped, volume soared as high as 4,590,000 shares a day, highest daily total since the beginning of the year...
House of Flowers (book by Truman Capote; music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by Capote and Arlen) has a good deal of what its title evokes. Out of a West Indian yarn of high-toned rival bordellos, of Mardi gras and cockfights and voodoo worship, spill brilliant color, exotic fragrance and tropical profusion. To be sure, the very things that give House of Flowers its charm and freshness also tend, after a while, to drain them away. For flowers wilt, and scent induces drowsiness...
...written in the form of answers to the 131 questions put to Nazis and suspected Nazis by the Allied Military Government. This somewhat naive effort to separate the good Germans from the bad gives Von Salomon the chance to spill his autobiography into a melodramatic mold...