It took many attention-grabbing forms: freedom rides, land marches, tent embassies, blockades, sieges, stand-offs, demonstrations, lobbying, denunciations, and funereal silences, even filibustering.

My father had been a dialogue-quoting filmaholic—an occupational hazard that drove my mother, and audiences, nuts.

Coordinate term: through-hole technology

As they reached the street the ‘Duchess’ caught a swirling hem of lace about her chilling ankles.