Word: effortlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned out to vote on a hot, cloudy July day and smashed the Byrds. Nobody seemed to notice. It was a terrible turn-out; one which should have helped an old organization. Everybody seemed glued to the tube for the moon shot leaving the next morning. The revolution seemed effortless...
...them in. They are what we look for, as we skim our lynx-eyes over every other page-a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an interesting date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading; and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, insert them in outline form; make sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top. "Illustrate:" Be Specific:" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, needn't be singularly relevant...
...Editor" Fraser, a Scottish journalist, has struck upon a splendidly entertaining and relatively effortless way of replaying some of those military histories that have so proliferated in recent years, in this case a fine review of the Afghan Wars by British Barrister-Author Patrick Macrory called The Fierce Pawns. No satirist could have invented a scene as bizarre as Afghanistan in 1841, or one so suited to showing the military mind at its silliest...
...them in. They are what we look for, as we skim our lynx-eyes over every other page--a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, titles of six poems in a row, even an interesting date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading; and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them insert them in outline form; make sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top, "Illustrate;" Be Specific;" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course needn't be singularly relevant, but they...
Sentimentalists will accept Days without question or quibble. Actor Olmer bears an uncanny resemblance to Mike Nichols and performs with bemused authority, but the film really belongs to Thalie Fruges, whose effortless, effervescent sexuality lends Days a small but firm distinction...