Word: tremors
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...used his Cinema-Scope cameras in sets seldom larger than the parlor of a miner's cottage, with none of the 40-foot ear lobes that sometimes result from wide-screen intimacy. Spectacle is firmly resisted; a disastrous mine explosion is recorded merely by a faint tremor on the surface of a millpond beside which two lovers are lolling. The impact, of course, is twice as forceful as if the air had been filled with flying coal carts. Much of the dialogue is Lawrence's, and it is a reminder of what a remarkable dialogue writer...
...Elwyn Brooks) White, 60, lives on a farm in North Brooklin, Me. and watches the change of seasons and the lives of men. For more than 30 years a contributor to The New Yorker, and now in semiretirement, White is a perceptive essayist; his topics range from the tremor of a leaf in the afternoon sun to the malaise of modern...
...landslide caused by heavy rains killed 18 people near the city of Valdivia, hard hit by last month's earthquakes. That night a jolt measuring 7.25 on the Richter scale (which counts any jolt over 7 as a major one) shook southern Chile. Next day a new tremor ten miles north of Valdivia set off another landslide, killing two more people. The following day two heavy quakes struck Concepcion, Chile's third city and top industrial center. And at week's end walls collapsed and women screamed hysterically in Valparaiso as a violent quake shook the port...
...Party "will win if we're united,'' he said. "We'll lose if we are divided." The committeemen and state chairmen gave him a standing ovation. At that point it seemed that Nelson Rockefeller's firecracker, having made everybody jump, had left not a tremor behind...
Horsehair Curls. It was Presley who came to Parker: by 1955 the Colonel (the title, he claims, is an honor conferred on him by several Governors) was the top manager in the country-music field. Elvis then had little more than a guitar and an inguinocutaneous tremor-"Who is Parsley?," Parker's friends kept asking him-but RCA was looking for just such a boy and had been trying to buy Presley's contract from Sun records without success. Freelancer Parker talked RCA into putting up $35,000, an unheard-of sum for a relative unknown. Sun sold...