Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scrambling to disguise his and her dilemma, Lacey describes everything colorful that surrounds his royally willed vacuum, from the 15 blue budgerigars she owned as a child to members of the family less addicted to duty: the court scamps. Uncle Edward ("the rogue factor") and his Wally. Sister Margaret and her Peter and her Tony. Even the fairly well-behaved Philip; for with his "compulsion to keep everyone around him laughing," he also favors a style of persuasion, Lacey warns, that "verges on thuggery...
From that simple situation-an impossible but inevitable marriage-unfolds The Pallisers' intricate plot. Glencora sparkles with good spirits and impetuosity. Plantagenet, admirably played by Philip Latham, has a manner so arid that he seems to exhale dust, like an overloaded vacuum cleaner, every time he speaks. Gradually, however, they grow-and grow believably -into love. Glencora gives up any notion of running away with the scoundrel Burgo Fitzgerald. Plantagenet, for his part, relinquishes his dream of becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer so that he can take her to the Continent. Eventually, however, he does become Chancellor, then Prime...
This is what is presently taking place in the Afro Department. The humanities are being presented in a political vacuum; they are offered ostensibly for some type of "pure" enlightenment, while the political and economic issues which have shaped those humanities are ignored, or pushed into the background. Black singers, dancers, and musicians, playwrights and authors receive abundant attention, but what of South Africa, of the civil rights movement, of institutional racism and its ramifications in modern society? Black people, some would have us believe, make great entertainers, but are not seriously engaged in the economic and political struggle...
When Mayor Daley died last month, people talked about a power vacuum reminiscent of that following the death of Stalin. Like other leaders of his ilk, Daley fancied himself immortal and groomed no successor. Even his son, State Sen. Richard M. Daley, whom the mayor supposedly wanted to succeed him, had been given no position of power from which to exert control over his father's domain. And many regulars hate...
Cleaning up oil spills is still very much a developing science. Such devices as booms to contain spilled oil and vacuum cleaners that suck it off the surface may work fairly well in the quiet waters of harbors or slow-flowing rivers. But the open ocean poses all but insuperable problems. Coast Guardsmen lost $200,000 worth of equipment when stormy seas forced them to abandon attempts to take off the Argo Merchant's cargo. The pounding waves rendered booms useless and stymied the Coast Guard's attempts to set the oil on fire...