Word: thunderous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of the actors carry multiple roles, but the best of the supporting quick change artists is undoubtedly Paris Barclay as the Baron of Thunder Ten Troncke, the Grand Inquisitor, the Slave Driver and a Sheik. Even in these bit roles, Barclay's stage presence steals every scene. His subtle gestures and expressions turn his characters in minor tours de force...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, wounded three times in the Civil War, used to thunder a century ago about "this smug, oversafe corner of the world . . . a little space of calm in the midst of the tempestuous, untamed streaming of the world," so far removed from most human want and anguish. That has not changed much over the past decades. But now it is changing. Scarcity is catching us, and we would probably be one of the first nuclear battlegrounds if restraint ever fractured...
...have the lean, weathered look of wranglers. Those pearl-buttoned denim shirts barely cover bellies bulging out from too many orders of mashed potatoes and chocolate cream pie. These cowboys are at home not on the range but in the claustrophobic cabs of 18-wheel trucks that thunder back and forth over the nation's 42,000 miles of interstate...
Grimesby Roylott tried it with a snake, Colonel Sebastian Moran with an air gun, Professor James Moriarty with evil genius and brute strength. Sherlock Holmes foiled them all. He conquered cocaine, the supercriminals and the erosions of time, and he defeats the makers of Murder by Decree. But, by thunder, it is a near thing...
Sears, the leader in an industry that employs more than 15% of the labor force, has long been at odds with the EEOC. Indeed, some thought the suit was designed to steal thunder from an anti-Sears suit still pending at EEOC. Sears officials deny this, but they make no secret of their frustrations with Washington. In 1973 the EEOC charged that Sears, which has about 417,000 people on its payroll, had followed discriminatory hiring and promotion practices. The company added a new dimension to its affirmative action program: Sears units were to hire one minority group member...