Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dynamite high," says a Boston dealer who carries a pistol because of the trade's hazards. "You feel like Adam, and God is blowing life into your nostrils." Some users claim that it has aphrodisiac properties. Cokeheads typically talk a lot, feel energetic and self-confident until the drug wears...
ELIOT HOUSE DINING ROOM, The Seven Year Itch with Marilyn Monroe (at 8) and Adam's Rib (at 10) with Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, April...
...music is amiably melodic and Dorothy Fields' lyrics ingratiatingly intelligent, though the score never soars toward the memorable. Apart from their notable acting strengths, the sheer likability of Michele Lee and Ken Howard is infectious. She is a warm, supple sprig of femininity; he is a tongue-tied Adam trying to invent a word for love. A playgoer ends up half wishing that the pair could swap their teeter-totter affair for the merry-go-round of marriage. · T.E. Kalem
JOHN D. TUNLOP is formidable in his role of every Bostonian whose last name begins with A. As Arnold, he concocts the ultimate bureaucratic vision--income stratification according to the first letter of each person's surname. "There's got to be inequality," Tunlop muses, putting down his Adam Smith. "The best we can do is to make poverty as arbitrary as possible...
...JEROME W. GOODMAN '52. Goodman is also known as 'Adam Smith,' and is the author of The Money Game and the currently best-selling Supermoney. In his original incarnation, he wrote several screenplays including The Americanization of Emily...