Word: tempester
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...Tempest in an oil barrel
...anticipate the novel's first steps. A stranger walks slowly into the landscape, this "frame of almost human expectancy," and advances, with Hardy-like fatality, toward the summer house of a famous old astronomer who seems to have "already reached the end of the world." A violently freakish tempest roars...
...remains best placed to withstand the current tempest, and will probably be the only Big Three automaker to earn a profit this year. Its very successful X cars, such as the Chevrolet Citation and the Buick Skylark, are helping the company maintain its market share. This fall GM will introduce shrunken or downsize intermediate cars like the Chevrolet Monte Carlo and Buick Regal. Its J car is due in April 1981, and will be a sporty subcompact successor to such models as the Chevy Monza...
...tempest in a chrysanthemum teacup? Not entirely. Critics of Critic Sheraton object that on occasion she is unnecessarily vitriolic. Says one noted food writer: "She writes laundry lists, not reviews. Mimi is far more concerned with whether a restaurant serves the third or fourth best kidneys in town than whether it is a pleasant place to visit where the reservations are honored, the hot food served hot and the cold food cold, and the people know how to smile." Be that as it may, the brouhaha may be worth more than three stars for Dish of Salt. After a dropoff...
...because it attempts too much, his ambition exceeds his grasp. Far from letting the play breathe, he beats it about the neck with a crowbar, adding abrasions and welts until he obscures his own intentions. By any interpretation, Lear should not be an interminable, mired melodrama set in a tempest of technology. Sellars' Lear is a tragedy of excess...