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Word: disstrous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radical Dartmouth grads who put out a leftist political quarterly from their next-door living room. Sophie Rauschmeier is her (unlikely) name; she loathes Normal Cornell, the sexually repressed but industrious writer of the pair of roommates, who is unfortunately smitten by her looks (and smell). As the disstrous outcome of Norman's amorous gestures, Sophie loses her job at a YMCA swimming pool, and actually goes to work for the magazine--falling in love with Andy Hobart, the more conventionally attractive radical, not only Norman's publisher but his best friend. En route to the final resolution, Norman becomes...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: A Simon Screw Job | 7/11/1972 | See Source »

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