Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before long−and A Pain in the A− is nothing if not brisk−Ventura is forced to take Brel under his wing, approximately the place where his rifle butt ought...
...wrestling on the floor, ignoring her until she screams, "I'm going to give it all away! To charity!" Nicky's rejoinder--"Let's not go off half-cocked, now." Her snappy comeback--"The scales have fallen from my eyes! I don't care to be the butt of your amusement." The script seems just badly written until one listens critically and realizes that every line could have been lifted from a Late Show rerun. The lines are as carefully strung together as if the whole purpose of the script had been to construct the perfect dialogue from long-retired...
Thus Wilson faced the greatest crisis in his career as he returned from meetings with President Ford in Washington last week. Some British commentators have already begun composing his political obituary. Wrote London Sunday Times Columnist Ronald Butt: "Mr. Wilson has lost his raison d'e#233;tre as leader. The qualification that justified his other shortcomings was his success at being all things to all men. He has now lost that knack...
...Pillsbury's balanced complexity in the April 29 Crimson. Robert Kennedy Jr. spoke of "clean anger" and struggle as concommitants of any caring and lucid analysis of our social condition. Most of the tenants going on strike have already intuited the deeper reality--perhaps because they are on the butt end of it--and have come up with necessary virtues to boot. Pillsbury will now have to decide, "on balance." Whether to side with them or evict them. James A. Sleeper School of Education
...universe here is the biggest of all big tops. Mercier and Camier are unwilling clowns in a performance they do not under stand. They are saddled with props - a reluctant umbrella, a sack, a raincoat and a bicycle - and trip helplessly into Alphonse-Gaston stage routines. They are the butt of exquisitely timed mal functions. Their umbrella refuses to open just as the rain, "acting on behalf of the universal malignity," comes down in buckets...