Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hauteur good enough for the one-dimensional roles she played in The Last Picture Show and The Heartbreak Kid. She knows how to strike poses for the camera (she used to be a fashion model, after all), but she has no resources as an actress. She runs short of breath in the middle of lines, and gives no appearance of understanding the words she blurts out in little hiccups. Daisy is supposed to be unspoiled, cunning and callow-and blithely attractive. Shepherd projects instead a taunting sexual hostility that turns Daisy into a little bitch goddess on a pedestal...
...dumped the candy corn and apples, I'd have all those neatly packaged morsels to parcel out, day by day, bite by bite. Sometimes three or four a day, even. I had very little willpower. Besides, Mother always knew how many I had had; I'd have chocolate breath. Also, that was before anyone had to worry about what the neighbors might have injected into the bar. The special neighbors always saved a big candy bar for their good little friends. That certainly solidified their neighborhood reputation...
...Tropic of Capricorn shocked a generation some 40 years ago, said that while he had advanced ideas about sex, he does not approve of the even more radical notions of women's liberation. Denying that he is a misogynist, he said, "I really love women." In the next breath he said of sex equality, "I'm against it." Then he got onto a subject that cheered him up: Oriental women. "They're tender, loving, beautiful, gracious and thoroughly feminine...
...bowl. The basket has two wire rings, one higher than the other. Hanging from one of the rings is a little ball made from the light core of a corn cob, with a wire hook in it. The idea is to gently support the ball with your breath, and raise it from one ring to the other and back again without it falling...
...first they looked at us, looked away and then acted like we had knocked the breath out of them." The speaker was George Wallace Jr., 22, a history major at Montgomery's Huntingdon College. With Evelyn Bradford, 18, a black student, he undertook a project for their social problems course. Posing as an engaged couple, they went apartment hunting in Montgomery. George reported to the class that three out of four landlords slammed the door in the couple's faces. Then he added: "I thought attitudes would be worse, but times are changing." Asked about...