Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France in effect has already done. London and Paris started a shouting match over whether or not De Gaulle had actually made such a proposal?and the curious case caused a new outbreak of Anglo-French hostility (see box following page). True or false?or, more likely, a bit of each?the affair was bound to embarrass the President by highlighting the rifts that still rend Europe...
Colburn, who set the University 1000 record at 2:09.3 earlier this season, has not competed in two weeks due to a slight muscle pull. He may have lost a bit from his patented finishing kick and will have to survive an afternoon trial heat to qualify for the evening final. Penn's Jerry Williams and possibly Yale's Bittner and Army's Larry Lemaster will pose the chief threats...
...telling of a story. In the case of Portnoy, we never forget that he is lying on the couch. He is recreating the past from a specific, highly-emotional point in the present. Emotion recollected in tranquillity turns into hysteria. Each time Portnoy's mother Sophie reappears, another bit of horror is added. Portnoy justifies it all by saying she wears "the old self-conscious on her sleeve!" In any case, she soon seemed to me more like the witch out of Disney's Snow White than anyone else (which only serves to show where my first conscious remembrance...
...basic danger of doing a book as an act or a routine is that it is only as good as its last bit. Despite Roth's extravagant comic talents and ingenuity, Portnoy's Complaint flags in stretches. The ending is a boisterious but somewhat flatfooted way of getting Portnoy off the stage. On balance, however, Portnoy's Complaint is skillfully paced, eliciting more laughs per page than any novel in recent memory-Catch-22 and The Sot Weed Factor notwithstanding...
...turns out that Bitos is not an unlikely man for the part of Robespierre since he once ordered his closest friend killed because this friend had collaborated with the Germans during the war ten years ago. Anouilh rails at this bit of petty bureaucratic brutality be linking this act of Bitos' to the tortuous reasoning by which Robespierre condemned some of his closest associates to the guillotine...