Word: wet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Andropov era, the KGB has apparently been careful not to soil its own hands with murders of revenge, political assassination and other "wet" (bloody) affairs. A plot against the Pope would have demanded extreme caution, since it conceivably could have endangered Andropov's political prospects and damaged the Kremlin's European peace offensive. Says Hélène Carrère d'Encausse: "If the West becomes convinced of Andropov's implication in this affair, it will not only diminish his international authority but shatter the modern, nonterrorist image that he has sought
...barrage of chemicals, dry ice, floating props and eccentric lighting?fought the tiny wisp of plot. During one inauspicious performance, Henning's wife Debby, who plays a variety of roles, including Water, one of the four elements, found herself on the wrong side of a fountain and emerged sopping wet...
...Smith handles much of the fiction as inspired entertainments and a good deal of the criticism as counterattacks in the literary wars. Graves' targets were not insignificant. Vachel Lindsay: "jazz Blake, St. Francis of Assisi playing the saxophone at the Firemen's Ball." Ezra Pound: bad rhythms and "a wet handshake." Dylan Thomas: "a Welsh demagogic masturbator who failed to pay his bills." T.S. Eliot: "a marvelous satirist with a true poetic sense who had sold out to institutionalized religion...
...riveting. None of them is intended primarily as a tragic figure, despite personal hardships, and Naylor occasionally errs too far towards the nonchalant in making that point clear: "She had almost learned to cope with his peculiar ways. A pot of burnt rice meant a fractured jaw or a wet bathroom floor a loose tooth." Each woman's story opens not with birth, or adolescence, or marriage, but with the moment that tragedy appears in her life, foreshadowing even greater misery...
...like to see him get his feet wet so he gets a taste of what he's getting into before the [February 5] Princeton meet," said Bernal Apparently, Ford's experience in head-to-head clashes in dual meets is limited...