Word: abounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Morreau on the one hand paints a pastoral landscape with all the interwoven relationships of a small, isolated community. Marie's grandmother (Simone Signoret) acts as an omniscient narrator, lyrically introducing all the characters and explaining all the village's social intricacies. All sorts of representative characters abound--star crossed lovers, old hags doubling as witches, and dumb country bumpkins. Marie meets all these characters and is swept along into their mundane lives until the volcanic outset of her maturity...
...tourist. Especially in Europe and Latin America, U.S. visitors are getting much more mileage from their traveler's checks than they were a year ago. Even though some hotels that cater to well-heeled visitors regularly raise their prices to keep pace with foreign currency changes, good values abound. In Paris, a four-course dinner at the three-star Tour d'Argent goes for about $54, expensive by most standards but still $17 cheaper than two years ago, thanks to a 74.8% appreciation in the dollar against the French franc. At ubiquitous Parisian cafes, steak and pommes frites...
...said that students "who have the stamina and commitment" to work in less-lucrative areas will resist the tempting high-salary offers which abound this time of year at Harvard and other top-ranked schools such as Stanford and Yale...
Gogoliana abound in this mesmerizing catalogue of corruption by Konstantin Simis, a former Soviet trial lawyer. One reprise from Dead Souls takes place in the ancient town of Ruza, near Moscow. The manager of a construction outfit, in need of ready cash for his business's bribery fund, resorts to a common practice: putting nonexistent workers on the payroll and then collecting their salaries. Simis writes: "To ensure that his 'dead souls' really were dead, [the Ruza manager] went out to the municipal cemetery and meticulously copied down the names of dead people from the gravestones...
Obvious winners abound for example, "I Love a Man in a Uniform," an undisguised satire of militarism, and "We Live as We Dream Alone," a most bleak outlook on individuals within society "It Is Not Enough" is an animalistic attack on western sexual mores from both the man and woman's point of view. (The Gang, by the was recently solved its long-brewing bassist problem with the addition of the multi-talented Sara Lee hurray for coeducation in rock!) The biting "The History of the World" is a disguised condemnation of imperialism and the album's underdog success. "When...