Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rendezvous is closing early these days, and Tommy's never seems right if you want to nurse your wounds over a 3 a.m. cup of coffee. Except for Brighams, which even freshmen have stopped going to after the first two weeks of school, there is no place in the Square plastic and peaceful enough to serve as an escape from any situation that has gotten a little too hairy to deal with at some ungodly hour of the morning...
...Angeles Dodgers have never made a habit of playing exciting baseball against anybody except the San Francisco Giants, and if the playoff for the National League pennant had been between those two teams, people might still be talking about the opening game...
...field Harvard has dominated all its opponents, including 12th ranked Columbia and 13th ranked UMass, except UConn, playing the controlled offense which was supposed to make it an explosive and exciting team to watch...
...like a microphone, intones, "Allo, allo, zis eez Jacques Cousteau for Union Oil." He then breaks into the Beverly Hills Blues: "Woke up the other day/ Ran out of Perrier/ I've really paid my dues/ Had to sell my Gucci shoes." The Robin Williams show has begun. Except that the show takes place off-camera between takes on Mark & Mindy ?the sleeper comedy sitcom of the young TV season...
Blindness looks like the best first novel of the year, except that the year is 1926. That was when the book appeared briefly in England and the U.S. before sinking from view. Its author was Henry Yorke, a wealthy young Oxford student who went on to write eight more novels under the pseudonym Henry Green. Although he never achieved widespread popularity before his death in 1973, Green did not labor in quite the obscurity that his circle of admirers claim; his novel Loving, published in the U.S. in 1949, flirted briefly with the bestseller list. But even his most dedicated...