Word: damningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said: "This is damn tough...
...some sort of eco-freak," broke in an incensed middle-aged man sporting a highball and a fur coat of his own. "Fur is warm. If it gets scarce, the market will raise the price to reduce the demand for it. Nobody's going to kill off all your damn wolves...
...hangers-on in attendance, an old Boston football expert asked by the M.C. to explain why that week's games had been such high-scoring affairs, answered: "This may sound like a stupid remark, but now you've got a lot of colored boys playing football, and they're damn good athletes who put a lot of pep into the game...
Although the reader is left wondering what Prince really does believe, it's easy to sympathize with his ambivalence. There's something seductive about big, flashy star-studded musicals with lots of dancing and songs that you sing to yourself on the way out of the theater--Damn Yankees, West Side Story, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Forum, Fiddler on the Roof, the shows that made Prince famous in the fifties and sixties. But at the same time, there's a nagging feeling that all this display is not really "art," that it's all contrived...
...their intelligence. "You are always trying to dredge up basic principles," Cain said. "Now if what you've got to blow is a bugle, there isn't any sense in camping yourself down in front of piano music." Lippmann replied:"You may be right, but God damn it, I'm not going to spend my life writing bugle calls...