Word: clinked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every other book Hume ever wrote; don't just say "Medieval cathedrals"--name nine. Think of a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they have at least the solid clink of pseudofacts...
...blame for taking away the meaning of the scene. Some of the lines and gestures, though, can only be schmaltz in any language. At one point, Dini is at a bar with an old con; after explaining his feelings, the con mutters. "And as for women ... ", and the two clink their glasses together...
When Photeine Anagnostopoulos makes an announcement in the Winthrop House dining hall, it's a production. She spends ten minutes telling her friends she's too embarassed to say anything, but they clink their glasses anyway. Even before the hubbub has died down a crescendo of male voices begins chanting, "Photo, Photo," Photo sheepishly rises, buries her face in her hand, and grins. "Aw. you guys...
Luckily, nightmares of a term in the presidential clink disappear as a familiar press office face turns up in the vestibule of the Oval Office. "We're on any minute now," is the latest word. And indeed, Allen soon makes his joking exit, the large door is reopened, and the tall, dark-haired man can be seen standing next to his desk. He buttons his jacket as the unfamiliar visitor makes his entrance...
...throw him in jail, Leigh-Cheri sits in her room for half a year and discovers the meaning of life by staring at a pack of Camel cigarettes. She promises to marry an Arab Sheik, provided he builds her a pyramid. The Woodpecker eventually gets out of the clink, meets her in the pyramid and reiterates the dilemma of transitory love. The sheik bombs the pyramid. The princess and the frog go deaf and, maybe, learn to make love stay. They live happily ever after...