Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...targets are the tabloid weeklies that feature UFO sightings, no-dieting diets and a "body in a box," that is, surreptitious photos of a dead celebrity in his casket. Rather than mock the already preposterous, Westlake explores the mentality that capable, rational people would need in order to crank out such stuff. In a particularly wry inversion of the norms of detective fiction, a young woman reporter bursts into the newsroom on her first day to tell her bosses she has come upon a murdered corpse just a few hundred yards from their office -- only to have it explained...
...robust but fragile Czechoslovak has never been especially difficult, going back to Martina's butterball days around the time of her 1975 defection. A stinging loss then could push her past tears to sobs at courtside. Sculpting her body to a point near perfection, and maybe to half a crank beyond that, Navratilova eventually learned to do her crying offstage. With bruised eyes, she reappeared from the locker room 45 minutes after the only Wimbledon final she ever lost, to say the right things. "It's not so bad. I'm happy for Steffi today . . . She's a nice human...
...question the rivalry between Harvard and Yale. Whenever the Crimson and the Elis clash, the two teams usually crank the level of intensity a notch higher...
...think that after spending three-plus years thinking about such a question, I'd be all set to crank out in a few minutes an answer to the question what does Harvard mean to me. But it means so many things and so few things. Forced to come up with something concrete, I feel like offering a Tevye-like "I don't know." I don't know how different I am than when I was 17 and can't imagine being different when I'm 47 or 57. With cybernetics being what it is, I might have the chance...
Meanwhile, however, Vilmure continues writing full-time from his Tampa home. "I'm trying to write a third novel, and I'm determined to sit down and crank...