Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more obscure, but you got the sense he had a truly original sense of humor. Maybe Mad About Mintz is something of a commercialization of his talents, an attempt to bring the LaZebnik wit to a wider audience than the Lowell JCR. His parodies of Hamlet and Paradise Lost count on only as much knowledge of these works as the casual reader of Bartlett's could be expected to have. The move to Agassiz has made LaZebnik's theater less intimate, more like musical comedy. In Teeth he paid little serious attention to plot and wrote a bizarre kind...
...loyalty should count at all in considering the sentences, it should be loyalty to basic principles of justice and not to any particular egomaniac. That Sirica's sentences were some of the stiffest in the entire Watergate nexus of crime and corruption attests to the gravity of this particular trial and its consequences. Enough of Watergate has already been obfuscated and forgotten for four of its most active participants to be mildly scolded and sent off to resume high social, if not powerful, positions in American society again...
What the Army did not count on was the opposition of environmentalists and animal lovers. First the federal Council on Environmental Quality advised the Army to write an impact statement describing the environmental effects of the spraying program. Completed early this month at a cost of $20,000, the statement met the objections of even the Humane Society of the U.S. But then two New York-based groups-the Society for Animal Rights and Citizens for Animals-sued in federal court to stay the attack, claiming that the project was "a form of mass euthanasia...
...perk up this familiar rehash, Updike gives his clergyman a bag of Nabokovian wordplays and tries to pass him off as Humbert Humbert (in Lolita, Humbert observed, "You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style"). Marshfield rattles off alliterations as if he were on death row. He describes a local nursery "which piously kept its Puerto Rican peony-pluckers in a state of purposeful peonage." With nary a blush he writes of returning home to the "fusty forgiveness of my fanlighted foyer." His frequent dissections of sex and theology revolve around a central question: How many...
...weeks ago, the Red and Blue upset perennial power Cornell, pulling out a 3-2 shocker in overtime. Before that, the Penn sextet stunned a heavily-favored squad from the University of New Hampshire, 6-4, and nailed St. Lawrence by a 6-3 count. But since the Cornell victory, three losses in four league games have severely damaged Quaker hopes for an ECAC playoff berth...