Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What's in a name? I'll tell you. It's not who you are but where you are that counts. For years, in addition to constant mispronunciations of my first name, I had to endure the humiliation of being assigned to an all-boy cabin in summer camp, and the embarrassment of an arrest warrant for failure to pay a male poll tax when I lived in Brookline...
...right to exist under certain conditions. But back in Beirut, Yasser Arafat's political adviser, Hani Hassan, still insists that "our response must be: no recognition of the state of Israel. Anyone who reconciles himself with the enemy and recognizes the enemy will be eliminated." This constant inconsistency has led U.S. diplomats to adopt what one jokingly calls the five-day rule: "Any P.L.O. statement not contradicted within five days is considered authoritative...
...relaxation, he watches sports on television, collects antiques, reads Russian authors (Maximov, Nekrasov, Sinyavsky) whose works are not published in the Soviet Union. He enjoys the company of fellow exiles, such as Poet Joseph Brodsky and Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. He is a tireless Five-F man, in constant pursuit (in no special order) of Fiddles, Food, Females, Friends?and Fodka. He is a shameless flirt, eats like an orchestra, and puts away more booze than a commissar at a convention. "What I remember first about Slava," says Seiji Ozawa, "is lots of drinking. He taught me how to drink fantastic...
...WHAT WILL give Herbert fans a feeling of deja vu, Dosadi, with its poisonous ecology, holistically breeds a supremely cunning civilization. The Gowachins established a colony there to observe human development. The densely populated city Chu is under constant siege from the desperate people of the "rim," who are exposed to the brunt of the planet's hardships. Their only chance for species survival is to breed uncontrollably...
...Phiadelphia Story. The summer after my freshman year I fell ass over elbows in love with an older woman, and my ardor for her has remained constant, if unrequited. As Tracy Lord, a spoiled Main Line Socialite who is humanized by the forces of drink. Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant, Katerine Hepburn turns in one of the most wonderful performances of her career. George Cukor skillfully directed this film version of the modern Midsummer Night's Dream that saved the National Theater Guild from bankruptcy. Grant is perfect in his Oberon role, masterfully elliptical and indirect. Ditto Jimmy Steward...