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...many of these expressions. For some reason the tendency in the language of love is to make less of the object of one's affections; it is quite common in most languages to add a diminutive suffix to a name (in Russian, ya, in Greek, oula, in Irish, een) so as to express fond feelings. Psychologists might suggest that the purpose of these diminutions is to assert the superiority of lover to loved one ("my pet"), but the effect diminishes all parties. We have created these words as verbal comforters, warm safety zones, wherein anyone, no matter how high...
...Amigos, where Pedro has put eet all together to make ze mos' excite vacation stop between La Canada and Key West! Ees leetle Mexico on 100 acres weeth 300 beeyooteefool rooms, shops, 3 sweem pools, par 3 golf, light-up tennis courts, gorjous landscape gardens, plus bran' new sombrero een zee sky tower weeth elevator to go opp een, see ever'teeng! Y'all comm, Amigo, Y'hear...
...didn't want to return to I-95. Before long my stop evolved into a goal--I was going to visit every shop, eat at every restaurant, see every sight South of the Border had to offer. At the Hot Tamale Restaurant ("zee mos" beeyotee fool fast-food Restaurant een ze South"), a hot tamale. At EI Toro Steak Room, a steak, at the EI Sombrero Room ("weeth a thousand sombreros on ceiling), some fried chicken...
...Loewin-??? first major collection of poems, just pub??? last week, that makes his motorcycle ride a ??? fitting symbolic gesture. Maybe it's that ???insohn is the kind of poet who seems to be ??? things in stride. Many of his poems appear ???halant at first, easy-going, like a conversation ???een two people who have met but are going ??? friends. Brautigan, of course, is the master ??? game; Sidney Goldfarb. also a Harvard ???-poet, is another player. (For instance: "On ??? to/ meet the astrologer/ 1 noticed my fly/ ??? down"). Loewinsohn plays it like he rode that ???cycle: real cool...
...projects-which will be Federaly-subsidized-will probably cost about ?8 million, Administration sources said last night. No completion date has yet ?een set, but such construction generally takes around 18 months...