Word: wet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON. A throat-drying English thriller, built around Kim Stanley's subtly menacing performance as a deranged medium whose "voices" tell her to kidnap a child...
...very well might have been, but seven U.S. Navy Skyraiders from a nearby Seventh Fleet carrier suddenly swooped in almost low enough to get their bellies wet, buzzed the Red vessels. Meanwhile, an amphibious Air Force HU-16 "Albatross" that had been circling off Quangkhe in case of just such an emergency, zeroed in on a radio homing beacon built into Cullen's life belt and sighted a brilliant orange marker dye that the downed pilot had released into the water. Defying 5-ft. waves, the Albatross set down without mishap in the choppy gulf, taxied up to Cullen...
...Sise and Fred Noyes, improved on past performances, placing fifteenth and sixteenth, respectively. This gave Harvard fourth place in the cross-country, with a high point score of 91.7. The course was not long, but the snow was wet, and the running was slow. Dartmouth won the event...
...Wet. In a global company, the policy problems can be considerable. Despite a continuing oil glut, Jersey is energetically prospecting for more oil against the day a decade from now when world demand approaches supply. Haider must decide on commitments in the North Sea, where the search looks good, and in Australia, where so far it has been poor. He faces major decisions on marketing policy for such areas as Japan and Europe, where demand for oil-as well as competition -is skyrocketing with industrialization...
...Ohio Gang, he shows how well he can perform without the aid of verbal asides. There his figures act out a silent drama: a two-faced lowlife extends his hands to a sensuous nude as if she were a manicurist, while a wet nurse in open brassiere wraps a ribbon through the girl's hair. Harsh, disjointed architecture unsettles the scene. It is no longer important that Kitaj has combined figures from German and French anatomical discourses with an English pram. For him, this painting conjures up his native state and the curious syndrome in American literature?...