Word: veils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disorders divide foods into "good" and "bad" categories. "If they've eaten one bad food, they might feel they've ruined the day; they might as well eat more; it won't matter. It's a painful cycle to be in. Women feel compelled. It's a kind of veil coming down over them. They feel like they can't break the cycle," says Honnet...
...Congress. Though the legislation will probably not pass this term, Scheuer, who has five no-smoking signs (one in four languages) in his office, is determined to keep trying. "There are many federal workers, including myself, who are sick and tired of having to toil in the thick veil of hazy and noxious smoke," he declares...
...play. The Werles' first-act party takes place in shadow behind a mirrored wall, which later turns out also to have concealed the grim garret where the Ekdals live. When the action shifts there, lush red drapes bordering the stage drop to the floor, as if a veil were ripped aside to reveal reality. The staircase leading from the living floor to the aerie where the Ekdals keep caged birds, including the duck of the title, is a noisy, bone-jouncing climb. The family's photo business consists of little more than a giant lamp that can be swung around...
Both Korn and Meredith (Ahmed and Abby) have exceptionally rich voices and loads of stage presence. Korn plays a soulful and winsome part, and Meredith vamps relentlessly, steaming up the stage as a veiled-and-sequined cross between Madonna and Bette Midler. Warren, too, as the lovelorn Celia, belts out a show-stopping number to her old flame, Ahab, begging him not to make her retire ("Don't Veil...
...hand, amid fellow frolicking freshmen, I heard an alarming piece of conversation. "Are you taking Chem 20?" queried one snowball thrower of his companion. When I realized that the classwide fun and games in the Yard would soon give way to individual quests for second semester success, the veil of frost glazing my vision quickly cleared...