Word: donee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What can be done? Two alternatives at least suggest themselves: one is to eliminate our Saturday night games, or, if that can't be done, insist that our opponents play on Friday and Saturday as well. Otherwise, we don't play. That may be a tough stand to take, but better that than this cruel fiasco of asking our players to go in there and be humiliated seven years out of eight...
...Candide candied. This is satire that hedges its bets. By the end, Ray and his friends must be heroes as well as oafs; the new neighbors must be villains as well as victims. All of them are "neighbors from hell," but the old residents are revealed to have done the right thing, if for the wrong reasons. And so Dante, like the viewer, is left straddling a white picket fence, perched between admiration and an urge to move out of this neighborhood pretty darned quick...
...beads. "I don't want to lie to you," Ihsan Barbouti tells the interviewer in his charmingly imperfect English, then adds disconcertingly, "and I don't want to tell you the truth also at the same time." Asked whether he ever dealt in deadly weapons, he says, "I have done nothing bad. I don't deal with arms. Arms dealing is the opposite of my character. But I don't deal with something else. I don't deal with cigarettes, because I feel cigarettes is against the health...
Whan's ultimate goal is to phone every household in North America each year with a personal invitation to attend church services. That would require 2 million callers to contact 100 homes apiece -- a total of 200 million heavenly junk calls. No problem, says Whan. "It literally could be done in three hours." Even St. Paul might be impressed. If the telephone had existed in his day, he could have evangelized from his living room instead of wandering over land and sea for two decades. Just imagine the sales pitch: "How are you this evening? Good. My name is Paul...
...real identity. The French magnate owns no real estate and has no fixed address, except for the 325-ft. yacht docked at Monte Carlo. A reporter looking into Bresson's origins turns up dead. And the magnate's dentist tells Lyman that Bresson's "cement" filling could have been done only in the Soviet Union...