Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begin to interest him. How shall he be bored? Only by "possessing her completely," which in successive weeks comes to mean-in-turn-understanding her, controlling her sexually, paying her as he would a prostitute, trying to shame her, and trying to marry her. But her answers to his endless interrogations prove noncommittal, her sexual contact with him (though pleasant) strangely incomplete. She uses his money to support another lover (Luciani) and confesses the fact freely; and refuses to marry him. Entirely defeated, Dino drives his car into a tree in an effort at suicide, fails, and regains consciousness placidly...
...thickening. The sugar coating to this bitter pill is a spectrum of new colors--but these colors would make any pill taste sickly sweet. Odd jackets in pink-and-white stripes, odder sweaters in natural-and-vicuna stripes, tight beach pants in canary yellow: the list is horrifying and endless...
Tenets, Anyone? Gruen is delighted with the results, and he vocalizes his joy with a characteristic prolixity that is as endless as one of his own escalators. "I have no illusions that this is now the new downtown," he says, "but even if this is only a piece, not the whole, it will demonstrate the three main tenets of my planning philosophy for downtown." First, "the separation of utilitarian func tions from human functions," i.e., truck and service traffic are separated from other traffic by use of the underground truck roads and the underground garage. Second, "the ideal city should...
Pelvic Polka. Youth's greatest malaise is simple Soviet boredom. Endless bitter jokes damn the drabness of life under Communism. Asks one: "Is there life on Mars?" Answer: "No, there isn't any there either." Asks another: "Is it possible to build Communism in only one country?" "Certainly, but who wants to live there?" Russia lacks the drugstores, coffee bars or bowling alleys where the young can congregate, although there is a scattering of ice cream parlors. Cinemas are few and crowded; getting tickets to the Bolshoi or Moscow Art Theater takes hours of waiting in line...
...till Easter. Months ago, the long schedule made clear that the Boston Celtics are easily the class of the league (TIME, Dec. 22), the best at the game's swift art of dunking baskets while elbows dig and feet flail and the referee's whistle skirls its endless interruptions...