Word: thunderclapping
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...Brummell in his teens became the friend of the fat, feckless Prince of Wales. By dressing with unheard-of care and severity-he used only two colors, blue for his coat and buff for his waistcoat and trousers-and by developing a haughty silence that could strike like a thunderclap, Brummell made himself the embodiment of bon ton in London society. From 1800 until he fled England to escape creditors in 1816, "his dictates were obeyed in all the great issues of existence: the curve of a brim, the blend of a snuff, the turn of a phrase, the ways...
...America-got his warm endorsement and a reminder that the U.S. is doing its part. Touching on the subject closest to his heart-world peace-President Eisenhower brought the Deputies to their feet with a thunderclap of applause. "War is now utterly preposterous," he said. "In nearly every generation the fields of earth have been stained with blood. Now, war would not yield blood-only a great emptiness for the combatants and the threat of death from the skies for all who inhabit the earth. To strive ceaselessly, honestly and effectively for peace is today the responsibility of every statesman...
...sheepdog (Rubi Rubirosa) pounced on two young things to Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave Overture, fainted dead away while Ringmaster Max explained: "Casarosa isn't as young as he thinks he is.'' In a mad finale, the "God of the Press" arrived in a thunderclap to terrify the revolting animals into submission. Corriere Delia Sera's critic echoed the cheering audience, found Composer Negri's patchwork pastiche "irreverent and thoroughly delightful...
...Bergman wobbles between drama and melodrama, alternates genuine horrors with sham tricks, comic sex with serious sex, and poetry with lampoon. Result is that The Magician is perhaps his least successful film so far. But for every murky symbol, there is a sharp physical image: footsteps become important, a thunderclap almost too real, and shafts of light through the mist startlingly beautiful. With the help of this brilliant graphic technique, a haunting guitar score, and the talented stock company of players who have turned up in all recent Bergman films. The Magician manages to fascinate as it confuses, demonstrates that...
...South on the subject of race relations than the South's own moderates. One of them, South Carolina's James McBride Dabbs, a 62-year-old scholar, essayist and Presbyterian elder, makes a forthright appeal to reason in this first book. Amid echoes of the ominous thunderclap of the Faubus election victory in Arkansas, Author Dabbs speaks in a deceptively small voice, but arraigns himself no less harshly than his neighbors...