Word: bout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poet Theodore Roethke died of a heart attack. Two days later, critic Richard Blackmur died after a long bout with Buerger's disease. In the same year, poet and critic Randall Jarrell was instantly killed when a car hit him. And in 1966 poet Delmore Schwartz died of a heart attack...
...terms, "their") generation, Blumenthal is even more carless. Tracy Chapman epitomizes our greedy decade with the line "If not now...when?" I'm hard-pressed to find a clearer example of quoting out of context. Hasn't Michael Blumenthal heard that Chapman, a folksinger, is "talkin 'bout a revolution...
...popping and his eyes are bulging as he works his way from inmate to inmate, delivering a series of blistering, nose-to-nose tongue-lashings. At the end of Cash's 45-minute outburst, the frightened inmates run right out of their shoes into a dressing room -- and another bout of humiliation. As if on cue, an aide shows up with electric clippers and shaves the young men's heads. The inmates then strip naked, and an assistant sprays them with delousing fluid. All the while, Cash keeps up his string of personal insults...
When Braniff airlines suddenly canceled virtually all its 256 daily flights last Wednesday, many customers must have had a sinking sense of deja vu. Just five years after the airline emerged from a two-year bout with Chapter 11, Braniff said it was filing for bankruptcy protection once again. The company's decision seemed all the more abrupt because only last May it moved its headquarters from Dallas to Orlando and ordered 50 new Airbus A320 jetliners for $2 billion...
...Belushi took his fatal overdose and hallucinates an interview with the dying star. "Breathe for me, Woodward!" the samurai comic cries. And it's hard to hate a docudrama in which Cathy Smith, Belushi's last drug source, materializes in the straight-arrow reporter's fantasy and asks, "How 'bout you, Woody? You want...