Word: damp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carefully heightening my responses... I swept my hair back from my damp forehead... I cut in to lighten the air heavy from adversary debating...
Allen Ginsberg exorcises spirits from the White House in a monotone drone and the ground is cool and damp. The grass eases up under your neck and he tweet? your toes. And Judy Collins sings "To every thing there is a season, turn, turn" And you wonder about tomorrow...
Anthony Burgess, a writer of great wit and erudition, once dared to put the goddess of love in a soggy English garden and between damp English sheets. Only a writer as talented as Burgess could have succeeded in such an unpromising enterprise...
Hammer said that the Massachusetts bill sponsored by a former Cambridge policeman is part of the same repressive atmosphere, since it "is designed to damp-en the enthusiasm of people involved in demonstrations." But Hammer said that he does not think the bill is unconstitutional...
FELLINI opens his Satyricon with a shot of a wall covered with ancient Roman graffitti: crudely drawn naked women, some puns, maybe somewhere a reference to Caesar Salad: all in cold damp colors blending to a dull grey-green. This first image persists as the most sensible comment about the rest of the film...