Word: coolers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that has repeatedly violated Haiti's new constitution. At the height of the protests this summer, the day was rare when the ramshackle boulevards of Port-au-Prince were not blocked by barriers of flaming tires. Each day, as the sun slipped in the sky and the air grew cooler, bands of boys played soccer around the debris. By evening, the thick black smoke enveloped the city. The sunsets were brown...
...risk '80s. Last year The Fly said that a woman could get involved with a nice guy who metamorphoses into a slavering insect. The current hit Fatal Attraction preaches that no man is safe from a fling who gets flung: her jealousy cuts like a knife. Scott's film, cooler, less apocalyptic, says only this: Know your place -- Manhattan or Queens, restlessness or security -- and stay in it. Alien worlds should never collide...
...Assisted U.S. Senator Proxmire in developing alternative strategies on water-rights legislation," for instance may also be read, "Refilled the Senator's office cooler, May-August '87." Remember, it's not chopped ham--it's chopped steak...
...woman still a mother? Impertinent question. You dared not ask it on Mother's Day pumped up with bonhomie, but now a few weeks afterward, in the cooler hours, the problem takes a tomblike shape. In terms of technical, logical definition, can a mother be a mother without doing a mother's things? At her advanced stage of life is she supposed to function institutionally, monumentally, like mother nature, mother wit? Mother Russia: perhaps she is to be seen as Yeats' country for old men. Mother earth: big as all outdoors. Not her, the featherweight fossil in your arms...
...some Bartlett's and James. If only PBS and C-SPAN deem your performance worthy of coverage, it is cooler not to whine about it. Instead, haul out the quote books and show off your erudition for this upscale audience. Here, for example, is a useful phrase from The Spoils of Poynton: "The fatal futility of Fact...