Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maintain a lively pace and thus enthusiastic interest, soon dissipates as one walks away from the play, appearing frenetic in retrospect. And the short developed one-liners which inevitably rise in frenzy to a punch line grow tiresome in their episodic pace, the constant up, down, bang, slap dash, stage clearing, re-engagement of one's attention once more...
Track and field will dominate the second part of the Munich program. To the winner of the men's 100-meter dash traditionally goes the title of "world's fastest human." Early this year, when U.S. sprinters were rising and falling like imperfect souffles, it looked as if the title might go to a Russian for the first time. Valery Borzov, from the little Ukrainian town of Novaya Kakhovka, had beaten every international runner to face him in three seasons. If anyone could conquer him by the time the Games began, it seemed it might be the "Southern...
...best flavors seem to be on sabbatical all the time, like your favorite professors. Mandarin Chocolate Sherbet Fudge Brownie, two of the very best, have been gone for what seems like an eternity (actually, since May). Glossy-black, the Mandarin Chocolate tastes of semi-sweet chocolate with a dash of Grand Marnier, the Fudge Brownie is luxurious...
...entrees have big names and offered little. The Beef Korma With Rice was a good excuse for beef Stroganoff, with a dash of cumin and coriander. If you order Roast Beef With Nicoise Sauce and Marinated Vegetables ($3.00) you get three small slices of round roast, an anonymous sauce of ketchup, mayonnaise and sour cream, and a collection of cold, precooked vegetables: one string bean (inspired), one carrot, one broccoli spear. (If the vegetables were marinated in anything it was boiling water...
...future of fate." On closer examination, how ever, they turn out to be merely incipient Snow men, i.e., earnest, solemn, long-winded committee members. Once more, then, Snow's plot hinges on the rather academic question: Who casts a deciding vote? The answer comes with a dash of LSD and a mysterious death by defenestration. But it is delivered in a style that is not so much prose as prosaic. At the end, Snow's hero decides to get married and bore from within society. With typical felicity, he concludes: "Some feelings were simpler, compulsorily simpler, than until...