Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sticking Plates. As the two plates grind past each other, friction causes them to stick together briefly at some places. Then, driven by powerful and little-understood forces deep within the earth, they tear apart to resume their journeys, causing minor to moderate tremors. But in the Palmdale region, they have apparently been firmly locked for more than a century, while adjoining parts of the plate have slid as much as 30 ft. Some day, seismologists warn, the stalled sections are going to have to catch up with the main bodies of the plates. Strains are inexorably building...
...minority of 278,000 whites in a country of some 6.1 million blacks. But Washington wants a peaceful transition to majority rule in Rhodesia, and it is anxious to head off a possibility of Soviet-Cuban intervention there. For one thing, an intervention of that kind would further tear the already badly shredded fabric of détente. More directly, it would leave the Administration uncomfortably facing a choice between two painful policy alternatives...
...they respond intuitively to the hostile fantasies disguised but still active in pornography." In Stoller's view, porn is two-edged; it "disperses rage" that might tear society apart, but it also threatens society by serving as propaganda for the unleashing of sexual hostility...
...Connery are imperfectly matched-silk and chain mail-which means, of course, that they are superb together. It is tempting but unfair to go into details of their last scene. Let it just be said that it is one of the most unconscionable assaults on the tear ducts since . . . well, since long before Hepburn's temporary retirement...
There are screams and popping balloons and hugs and pats on the back and the show closes. The audience, full of Loeb big-timers, streams into the greenroom after curtain calls and a crew of T-shirted techies replaces the actors on stage to tear down the set. Author Philip LaZebnik stands out in the greenroom, partially because of his lanky height, partially because of the flock of people who rush to shake his hand. But each actor is surrounded by his own crowd; they smile in a daze, drained and wet. Some of them are on the verge...