Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poured the milk down the sink, rinsed out the glass, and placed it mouth down in the drainer. She checked if there were any crumbs on the counter to attract ants and, finding a few by the toaster, brushed them with one hand into the other, and down the sink, after the milk. With a wet washcloth she erased a smear of jam she had noticed near the toaster. She switched off the counter lights and said, "I'm not drinking. I'm going...
Marry Me suffers from almost the exact opposite problem. The action is simple and complete, but with no one to hold it together. Its hero's plight is neither real enough to attract our sympathies, nor is his method of dealing with it courageous enough to merit our admiration. As a novel, Marry Me fails; but with some paring, it's a property Lee Strasberg might be interested...
Butz started by telling a dirty joke involving intercourse between a dog and a skunk. When the conversation turned to politics, Boone, a right-wing Republican, asked Butz why the party of Lincoln was not able to attract more blacks. The Secretary responded with a line so obscene and insulting to blacks that it forced him out of the Cabinet last week and jolted the whole Ford campaign. Butz said that "the only thing the coloreds are looking...
Firm Control. The trial is certain to attract wide attention-especially since the Indian government lifted all censorship restrictions on foreign correspondents a fortnight ago. No similar relaxation in the government's firm control over the domestic press has taken place. On the contrary, the right of dissent has virtually disappeared...
...quick Dexamyl, followed by several white crosses (bennies), puts one right for breakfast. A little Scotch on the bus mellows the transition between motel rooms, and a bottle of champagne primes one for the performance. "This is a rotgut life, but why worry?" smiles Van Zant. "We attract mostly drunk people and rowdy kids who come to shake...