Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pipe before explaining why you are flunking his course, Hepburn decides to tend the fire in the second-floor drawing room of her Manhattan town house, for which she says (later, when she is speaking) she was offered $2 million. I look around at her watercolors, the antique duck decoy, some African artifacts, and memorize the pattern in the Oriental rug while she slowly removes the screen from the fireplace, chucks in a couple of corn husks, stokes the embers a bit here and there, and shoves the wood around...
...clued in to the fatuousness of civics-book sanctimony, to the permutations of suburban phoniness, to grown-up dissembling and insincerely sincere hucksterism of all kinds. Mad infected children with a healthy streak of antiestablishment skepticism, a Dada- dissectionist attitude toward all media. Where else could you see Donald Duck baffled by his three fingers and white gloves...
...sobering effect of the Los Angeles riots also made itself felt in the primary with the overwhelming 67%-to-33% passage of a local ballot initiative, Charter Amendment F, which will impose greater civilian authority over the Los Angeles police chief. Lame-duck chief Daryl Gates, clearly the target of many of the yes voters, complained that they had been "sold a bill of goods." But Los Angeles' Urban League president John Mack called it "a home run for justice...
...exit reality. Richard Price, a film scriptwriter whose much praised first novel was The Wanderers, hung out with drug cops and drug dealers for two years, he says, listening to the talk and watching the action. A white, middle-class reader, from a neighborhood where people don't duck when they see a police car, has no business saying whether Price has got things right. But the book sounds right; it rings true. Cheap wine, the kind you drink on the front steps, is "stoop booze." That's information worth hanging out to hear. The plainclothes-police raiders who roust...
...tried to duck around the defenders andbounce it in, but I couldn't get a clear shot. Ithought about passing but the four defenders'sticks made that even more difficult thanshooting," Berkery Said...