Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...chairman, Philip Caldwell, and the U.A.W.'s Fraser wanted still tougher restrictions; GM's Murphy opposed forcing a halt in imports from Japan. In the midst of his plea for pressure on the Japanese, Fraser looked across the polished table and saw Murphy about to start a rebuttal. Said the U.A.W. leader puckishly: "Now, Tom, keep quiet. I didn't interrupt...
...teen-age son William J. Murray III. He went on to become a publisher, but later joined his mother in Austin, Texas. In 1975 he reorganized the headquarters of her American Atheists and revived its monthly magazine. In 1977 he broke with his mother and tried to start a rival atheist organization...
...masklike air, blank, inexpressive, with empty eye sockets. Picasso had been looking at archaic Spanish carvings from Osuna. Now he stressed the sculptural, instead of the linear and atmospheric: solid impacted form, not fleeting mood. His 1906 portrait of Gertrude Stein, almost leaden in its pictorial ineloquence, marked the start of this change, and the pink stony torsos of Two Nudes, 1906, delineate the period's end. In between lay some magnificent paintings, such as the Seated Female Nude with Crossed Legs, 1906, whose solidities of thigh, trunk and breasts anticipate the swollen torsos of Picasso's "classical" women...
...book's first scene is in some ways its best: Philippa Palfrey, 18, a privileged girl, adopted, visits a social worker to start the legal process of learning the identity of her natural parents. Philippa is beautiful and cold; long ago she guessed that the Palfreys had selected her, when she was eight, because of her grave intelligence and unusual looks. For her and the reader the cruel blow comes early: her real parents turn out to be murderers of the most melodramatic sort. For the rest of the story James must crawl back from a cliché that...
...waited for the show to start, gathering close by his buddies, throwing up impenetrable, bitter walls of beer, and through it they could see the others complain...