Word: stream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remembrances of Enda, fueled by the discovery of his autobiographical video-tapes, assume a nasty edge. His emotional distance from his offspring and his long-ago affair still haunt his family. Catherine secretly informs the guests at Enda's funeral that the family would prefer privacy to the customary stream of visitors and after the funeral the tense family, waiting for mourners who've gone pubbing with Godot, is left alone with its festering resentments...
...there is nothing unusual about an El Nino. It is a perfectly normal cycle of Pacific waters' warming every two to seven years, altering jet-stream flows and cloud formation. This changes the weather over most of the globe in fairly predictable, entirely natural ways. It alternates with the La Nina cycle, which cools the waters and creates mostly contrary effects. It's been going on, as far as we can tell, for millennia...
...that Willman, 53, is a compulsive gambler who lost so much money at Station Casino that to protect herself, she arranged to be legally barred from entering the riverboat and taken off its mailing lists. In spite of these efforts, the casino continues to send her a steady stream of solicitations--even though it is now exhorting her to commit an act of criminal trespass. "The mailings just keep on coming," she says. She was told by the management of Station Casino that its computerized database would not, for some unfathomable reason, allow her name to be deleted. Call...
...cooler, bluer air surrounds her interactions in the social world. The outside world is marked from the world inside Yerma and Juan's house, and a warm orange light for her beautiful dreams of children. reminiscent of the dreamlike color and warmth of the womb, or the "blood-stream...
PULP PROPHET White-maned, white-suited, his omnipresent cigar cocked at a jaunty angle, Sam Fuller, encountered in Parisian exile, briefly stilled the stream of consciousness that usually rushed across his gravel-bed larynx. He was searching for something he rarely offered in his movies--a neat summarizing idea. "That's it," he finally offered. "A director takes a song, a lyric, and makes a symphony of it. Does that make sense...