Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will all be there to deal with again during the week--stay away from a decent newspaper. The idiot papers will fill your mind with puffery about craft fairs or "celebrities," but a good newspaper never stops giving you the news, and it's almost always bad. If you don't watch out, you'll catch yourself remembering what an out-of-control mess this country is, and that will probably spoil your weekend...
...current Washington catch phrase. That is, how to shake the wind out of inflation without tipping the country back into recession. More signs of gathering trouble on the price front arrived with last week's reports. The cost of living jumped another .9% in May, which was as bad as the April rise and translates into an annual inflation rate of 11.4%. Once again, the chief villain was the rising cost of food, although meat prices, the top offender in the past, seem to be receding...
...perfect airplane book should distract during long, tedious hours of bad food and crying babies without absorbing so completely that the reader forgets to pray for a smooth landing. If, in addition, it whets the appetite for faraway places, the summertime traveler has the perfect prelude to vacation reading...
...been able to acquire and then kick an addiction to TV soap operas: "In my experience, the only thing you can quit cold turkey is cold turkey." She notes how hard it is for parents to write newsy letters to their mature offspring: "It's too bad that the kid isn't interested in your bronchitis or the fact that the Chevy broke down on the Triborough Bridge and had to be towed home...
...troubled Easterner write about the wide-open sex scene of California? Entertainingly. Marcia Seligson knows the tribal beliefs: monogamy and jealousy are bad; self-enrichment, looking for space and living with the authentic flow of the moment are dynamite. She has also taken the trouble to learn psychobabble, the indigenous tongue. "Guts are good, heads are bad," she writes. "You may never start a sentence with 'I think' ... If you begin with 'I feel' you can get away with atrocities." Group-sex enthusiasts seem to spend so much time and energy in pouty encounters that Seligson...