Word: ah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silver Moon is not one of the South's classier joints. Its clientele consists of truck drivers and farmers, and the conversation runs to items like "Ah dam near runned over a nigger on the way into Mobile last week." I had come there to soak up the seamy atmosphere and tuck it away into my group of Southern Observations. So the men sat and talked, I sat and tucked, and eventually I left with no overt threats hanging over my head...
...AH astonishing as the events of the week were, they were no more mysterious than the motives and timing of the men who triggered them in Moscow. One of the real dramas of the invasion of Czechoslovakia took place in the Kremlin, whose leaders have been locked in debate for weeks about whether to strike down Alexander Dubcek's liberal reforms. Why did Russia's leaders finally decide to use fists instead of flexibility...
...romantic metaphors they lovingly hurl at one another is gratuitous. First, it's a stock actor's trick (whenever you have a self-conscious speech to say, you make it quite clear that you're writing it on the spot) and all those pauses, well's mmm's, and ah's rarely add any sense of spontaneity (this is also true of Ulysses's first speech as delivered by Daniel Seltzer) and almost always ruins the verse...
...finally getting that wish. She and her husband Niels Onstad are giving Oslo an $8 million gallery to be stocked with more than 200 paintings from their world-famed collection of moderns. But the parting, it turns out, is sweet sorrow for Sonja, who has become an avid modernist. Ah well, they still have 50 paintings left for themselves and all that wall space in their three homes to start filling up again...
...more out of life, decides to leave her "family." The lady of the house gets frantic at the prospect of losing her maid, tells her to "call me Doris like my friends," and offers to give her a vacation: "We'll send you anyplace you want to go. Ah ... Africa...