Word: beatnik
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...Sputnik in the title is derived from a character who confuses it with novelist Jack Kerouac (a beatnik), a hero of the heroine who turns out to be quite spacey herself; a pun is also intended since sputnik in Russian means "fellow traveler." Sumire, a compulsive wanna-be writer, is loved by a young male teacher but she herself has an unrequited crush on an older woman. On a trip to a Greek island with her "girlfriend," the sapphic Sumire disappears "just like smoke." And what has started out as a boy-loves-girl-loves-girl love story winds...
NAOKI INOSE Economic Adviser He's a bit of a beatnik compared with others in Tokyo's halls of power, but Inose advocates an end to free love for Japan's public companies. A writer on history and politics, Inose, 55, has been tapped to serve on a panel of outside advisers assigned by Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to plot ways to privatize corporations in government-controlled industries such as construction and banking. Inose says many of these companies are "parasites" that saddle the government with debt and make it difficult for efficient competitors to thrive...
...greatest” needed no such hoodlums. Our grandfathers who fought on the beaches of Dunkirk and Normandy and kept the trust of democracy in the civilized world were beyond the lawlessness and the vandalism that White seems to encourage. He is part and parcel of the beatnik, man-loving-man, pinko plague that has taken to our streets and children. My anger is without bound, even in this age of limits and delimitations. These limits and delimitations are all that separates man from beast, citizen from barbarian, and good from evil. I am fortunate that in this new century...
That doesn't mean we aren't winning, nonetheless. In the olden days of aristocracy (Levine wrote her Dana Reed Prize-winning essay in 1963) there may have been more New York peach types, or beatnik limes, but in the new millennium meritocracy, us chocolates are in the majority...
...Skinhead group: __ Brotherhood 8. Kind of bonding 9. Rebels have seized control of the capital of the __ Islands 10. Gov't agency banning pesticide chlorpyrifos 11. Tussaud's medium 16. She's at odds with 45-Down over campaign fund raising 20. Name on a 1973 decision 22. Beatnik home 23. Gore is proposing a $30 billion __ care program 25. Folk singer DiFranco 26. Mardi Gras figure 28. Churchillian gesture 29. Bloomers worn around the neck 30. Auto corp. that will extend health care to gay partners 31. Bill's partner 32. He spent more than $30 million...