Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decided to journey to Walden Pond, to experience nature. We got there and were experiencing nature, walking across the frozen pond, wondering if we could find a live beaver to eat--as Henry David Thoreau used to fantasize--when we discovered upon climbing over a slight rise, that our car was no longer there. Now, the first thing we figured was that our car had been stolen. But then we realized that it probably had only been towed--although it was 9:05 on a Sunday morning--and we walked up the road to Ranger Bill. Ranger Bill said...
DEWITT: The Deer Hunter. Well, first off, five bucks for a movie is an outrage--although you guys'll have to pay $25 to get your car out of hock--and frankly. I almost didn't go. Dolby or no Dolby. That music--Christ--I still have a headache. And the gun shots--every time they blew up a face I hit the roof. It was very well filmed. Vilmos Zsigmond is a genius. Well edited. Those weren't Pennsylvania mountains, though. Man, it was elaborately bogus--the choral music in the mountains, the Russian Orthodox Church that looked like...
...When we say strategic misrepresentation, we're not talking about a person who, when trying to sell a used car, will set back the odometer," Raiffa wrote in this month's Harvard Business School Bulletin. "That sort of scurrilous behavior would not be condoned by me or by any of my students. We are talking about the grayer area where the seller of the car would be willing to sell at $500 but says he would not be willing to take a cent less than...
DEWITT: You question with the truculence of many drugged Republicans. Why don't you walk back to your car? There's more in Boris Karloff's monster in Bride of Frankenstein than in Interiors. God, what a wheeze-bag bore. I was embarrassed for Woody Allen. Oooh, were those actors acting. Oooh, spilling their guts out into the camera, "I'm so empty I'm so depressed I've got so much anger in me Watch me crack up Boo-hoo isn't life depressing Look at those waves I'm gonna walk into the surf Whoosh whoosh crash splash...
...past several years have tried, with limited success, to top each other at composing limericks. The result of their 1978 Shootout is a book in which each offers 144 of the five-liners. One of Ciardi's milder offerings reads: "Said a voice from the back of the car,/ 'Young man, I don't know who you are./ But allow me to state,/ Though it may come too late,/ I had not meant to go quite this far.' " An Asimovian retort goes: "There is something about satyriasis/ That arouses psychiatrists' biases...