Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grass-roots representatives vote with their guts, she says, so "anyone who has tarnished his record or become disliked by the villages will be rejected." Her job on the county committee as an All China Women's Federation representative is appointive, but, she says, "if I were just an armchair bureaucrat, they'd laugh...
Reading horribilious accounts of the wet, wide and awful while remaining safe, snug and dry may be a bookworm's naughty perversion. Or call it simple good sense to do one's seafaring while seated and ashore. At any rate, in this boating season armchair mariners have an unusually good selection of chilling watery chronicles to keep them landlocked...
...first is an alarming account, told with remarkable calmness by author Nichols, of his single-handed sail from Falmouth, England, most of the way, but not all the way, to Maine. As Nichols puts to sea in dodgy weather, the reader in his armchair considers omens (a necessary and enjoyable preliminary to the sport of reading about other people's mad adventures). Nichols is a highly experienced professional sailor, and Toad, his engineless 27-ft. sloop, is as strong and seaworthy as he and his ex-wife, whom he calls J., could make it. But now the marriage has broken...
Then, out of the blue, Cho slapped his armchair and yelled, "Damn! Basketball...
...Klein articles? "It's just one of those cartoon cliches that are pretty well played out," Lorenz says. "It's like desert-island cartoons. You always think you're never going to want to publish another one." True, and the same probably goes for husband-and-wife-in-armchair cartoons...