Word: aves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Given the transformation of the pre-teen rump into a sex symbol in dozens of designer-jeans ads, and the popularity of "nymphet" models on Madison Ave., staging the book that coined that term once again was more good commercial sense than homage to Nabokov. Although capitalizing on this latest fashion in exploitation shouldn't have to mean joining in gleefully, through much of Lolita that's what Albee seems to be doing. Where Nabokov will choose an elegant pun, Albee lunges for the obscene gag: where Nabokov will subtly makes you think about the arbitrariness of social rules, Albee...
...apparently beat a hasty path to the circular file--was ruminating the other day about the nation's leadership change, in particular about the effectiveness of the Reagan transition effort. For four months, a government-in-exile rapidly deployed itself in Washington, seizing an office complex at 1726 Massachusetts Ave. NW, spending money, filling memos and churning gossip at a frightening pace, appointments filtering out somewhat less frequently. Yet when January 20 rolled around, with all the frenzy of freed hostages and an inauguration, only a few of the hundreds of succabinet posts in various government departments had been parceled...
...Corner of Mass Ave and the Alewife Brook Parkway finishes a close third with 41 accidents and 10 injuries...
...Massachusetts in 1979, but those figures represented a 5-per-cent drop from the year before, a spokesman from the Registry of Motor Vehicles said. Ten to Avoid Intersection Accidents Injuries 1. Alewife Pkwy and Concord Pike 58 12 2. Boylston St and Memorial Dr 42 13 3. Mass Ave and Alewife Pkwy 41 10 4. Alewife Pkwy and Rindge Ave 36 7 5. Mt Auburn St and Fresh Pond 29 11 6. Mass Ave and Memorial Dr 28 12 7. Western Ave and Memorial Dr 27 8 8. River St and Memorial Dr 27 6 9. Commercial Ave...
...real cold out on Mass Ave at 4:30 in the afternoon with an exam staring you in the face. Not the kind of cold that the river sends up through the gates of Winthrop House and up Holyoke St., the type that sends you into the bank to cash more money than you should just because you need someplace warm to stand, but cold enough...