Word: wet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gray and wet, adding a touch of gloom to the usual anxiety in the New York air. High atop the American Telephone and Telegraph (AT & T) building, chairman of the board John deButts has a commanding view of the World Trade Centers. The rest of the building, as far as I can tell from the lobby and the hallways, seems to be a cross between a medieval castle and the Pentagon. The lobby is crowded with simple Roman columns, which part to reveal a statue set into the marble wall. It is the figure of a man with...
...even to the point of imbuing The Champ with bizarre incestuous undercurrents. As the young object of Dunaway's affections, the freckle-faced Schroder cries on any and every cue. Tears flood the screen, but at theaters where this Champ is playing, there won't be a wet eye in the house. -Frank Rich
...result the Shah, 59, spends much of his time, even in the wet and winds of winter, walking with Farah in the 25 acres of parkland that surround the palace. For exercise the onetime king of the ski slopes has taken up golf under the tutelage of Claude Harmon Jr., the American pro who taught Hassan to play. So far the Shah has yet to finish 18 holes at the royal golf club near the palace...
...desperately tight. Ore carriers must have room to pivot around the turns without their bows or sterns straying from the deep water. There is much moving back and forth by the Mac in an effort to flush the ice from the shipping lane, and she shakes like a wet puppy. The "Mackinaw Dance," the crew calls...
...actually see Birdy fly. We believe that he speaks canary language, that he understands the birds' system of time, that he knows what it is like to soar higher than the trees and that Perta, the yellow canary with the green eyebrows, can inspire Birdy to love and wet dreams. We believe he is a bird...