Word: yearning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proper Bostonian. Many people say that they go simply because everyone warned them not to; others are fascinated by the special effects, like the bedroom scene with the flying furniture, or are curious to see the girl vomiting pea soup or mutilating herself with a crucifix. Still other viewers yearn to be scared. "To be strictly honest, I'm morbid," admitted one college student. "It's a cult; you have to see this movie," said another. "It's the beat 'em and bleed 'em creeping-crawlies cult," grinned a third...
...Gene Wilder) remains a human being. Everyone else in the town has been inflicted with rhinoceritis, a mysterious disease which changes them into snorting, thick-skinned rhinos. Originally the beasts are an anomaly in the town. But they become more and more appealing to the people. The human beings yearn to become rhinoceroses. The comfort of conformity becomes more attractive than the responsibilities of individualism. So one by one, the people of the town succumb to the lure of the mindless pact. Even Stanley's saccharine girl friend Daisy (Karen Black) and his best friend John (Zero Mostel) go over...
...phantasmagoric is the normal life of the Sohier family and their friends that the power failure does not seem to alter their behavior dramatically. If these people were germs on one of those glass plates used in general-science courses, they would be the kind that mad Army biologists yearn to drop on Russia. But they move, thrive and incontestably have life. Whether this is a good thing or not is a judgment the author does not make...
White Horse. Sadat's proposals were essentially nationalist rather than revolutionary. Thus his message could hardly have pleased the Palestinians, who yearn for a return of the lands that were lost in 1948. Although Sadat skirted the Palestinian issue, fedayeen leaders did not object openly to the speech; seemingly, they are resigned to playing a subordinate role in the current stage of the struggle against Israel...
Affluence will also increase land demand for airports, marinas, ski lodges and especially vacation and retirement homes. Apartment dwellers no longer are content with a rented room by the seashore on their holidays; more and more yearn for their own cabin on Mosquito Lake. Older people who once took it for granted that they would move in with reluctant sons and daughters after retirement now count on relaxing in some sunny clime on the beaches and golf courses of Senior Citizen Acres. "Even if we attain zero population growth, we will continue to spread out across our open land like...