Word: dynamo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Greenwich Village brownstone, two flights up from lis "semi-ex-wife" Violet, who has resumed life with her first husband, a functioning dipso poet named Skippy Mountjoy. Albert drops by to walk their dachshund every day. His girlfriend is a youthful, frantically athletic woman whom he calls the Human Dynamo. She telephones lim at night from New Canaan, Conn., to wonder whether the vanity plates on her new BMW should say YOGURT or SUNDAE or MUFFIN. Stooped by his literacy and sorrow, Albert must listen to the Dynamo complain: "You don't play tennis, you don't snow...
Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb...
...foolish, even sad, to savor the victory as an act of geopolitical symbolism, Americans nonetheless had a right to be proud of their boys. A pond-hockey pickup crew of collegians, they had knocked off an athletic machine assembled from the best that the Soviet army and the Moscow Dynamo could produce-the best team in the world, professional or amateur. Basically the same Soviet outfit trounced the National Hockey League All-Stars at Madison Square Garden last year. The Soviets have won the title in every Olympics since 1964; the Americans last took the gold 20 years...
Among little magazines, Partisan Review stands as the most inflential. While its incendiary rivals like Blast, Dynamo and New Masses have gone under--whether for internecine strife, financial problems or dearth of readership--Partisan Review still continues to publish, here in Boston. Phillips attributes the magazine's longevity to its broader appeal: "Partisan Review was more socially, politically and culturally oriented," he adds...