Word: arse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This assault on the free enterprise system is devastatingly successful, and so, despite its complexities, is the author's handling of the caper. Its most memorable victim is Granada Masterman, Gudge's lumpy half-sister, who has built a door-to-door beauty-products business into an army...
In France, where he had served as an artilleryman during World War I, MacLeish spent five years among the expatriates of the Lost Generation, and from this came a number of rather conventional but polished lyrics. "A poem should be wordless/ As the flight of birds," ran the most celebrated...
Of course, if the Gobbler works, we will lose a bit in the bargain. The instructive messages in public toilets, the phone numbers, the lively anatomical drawings-no loss in any of that. But some things will be missed. The desperate erudition on the walls of college hangouts, for example...