Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dance which culminates in Simon's murder; Golding describes the storm in a few terse paragraphs. In the movie, on the other hand, the storm crackles with so much sound and fury that the viewer almost expects to see the label "symbol," rather than a flash of lightning, streak across...
...than 160 years, French and British engineers have proposed linking their countries with a tunnel under the English Channel. Though the plan appealed to many people-from seasick travelers to "one Europe" visionaries-it never came alive. The reason: Britain's reluctance to violate what Gladstone called "that streak of silver sea" that for centuries protected the island nation from invaders...
...objections, the citizenry is still concerned about invaders. "The chunnel would be an entrance for an enemy," worried one Londoner. "It's always been that little bit of water that's kept us safe," said another. Despite the committee's report, Gladstone's silver streak seemed as wide as ever...
Doomed to be thrust from power by the onrushing forces of history, the aristocracy of 18th century Europe elected to live out its autumn in a sort of perpetual costume party. It was an age of elaboration, in manners and art, essentially frivolous but with a concealed streak of autumnal sadness. Its curlicued style came to be called rococo...
...though the tough, sullen delinquent pose she adopted to protect her secret soul is fairly new in this genre. She is adept at putting the false comic nose on the face of authority, and all get a good laugh from the schoolmaster who told her she was "a long streak of nothing," from Mum, and from the dear silly nuns who had her in charge for a while. We learn without astonishment that they were more pious but not so clever as little Shelagh. But did she really believe that they slept at night hanging upside down from the rafters...