Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...instance, that Grand is an avid TV-watcher, and his propensity to change channels lets Southern smuggle in random bits about a disguised puma that eats its competition at a silk-stocking New York dog show and two gnarled heavyweight contenders who prance to the center of the ring, embrace, and writhe down to the canvas moaning passionately. And the cruise aboard the Magic Christian pleasure liner inexplicably disintegrates into a freak orgy that gives werewolves, midgets, body-cultists, and gorillas the opportunity to mug out a few giggles from the bored audience...
...motive other than a passionate, competitive desire to dump the other guy on his head and keep him there. For the audience, there was only the thrill of a dirty punch, and some half-hearted speculation on an obvious outcome. When I discovered, however, that the men in the ring were getting paid to perform, and that the audience knew what it was getting, my dilemma was solved and my faith in the rationality of man and his motives was restored...
...take the cake," "Never darken my door again unless it's for keeps," and "Which is worse, the heart abused or the heart unused?" For those who cannot answer that question, the film provides a clue: when the boy friend finally arrives with a divorce decree, ten-carat ring and oleaginous smirk, Fran decides that Real Love, after all, is the only game in town...
...totality approaches on Nantucket, the "Diamond Ring Effect" should be visible. A thin circle of light, capped by one bright spot, surrounds the moon's black disc and creates the impression of a ring. About this time, ripples of light (the so-called shadow bands) may race across the landscape as sunlight is refracted by irregularities in the earth's upper atmosphere...
...when the satellite passes in front of the sun but is so far from the earth that the cone of the umbra falls short of the earth's surface. When this happens, the moon will appear smaller than the sun, and at mid-eclipse, the sun will form a ring around the smaller moon-an annular eclipse...