Word: fashionably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middlesex County in its path. He was not up for election during the Middlesex County "reform slate" of 1972, and stayed remarkably in the background of the late-summer hoopla surrounding fellow commissioner Mike McLaughlin and his alleged job-selling tactics. The job-selling probe, conducted in primary-timed fashion by District Attorney Droney's office, eventually cost McLaughlin a chance of winning the party nomination for Congress in the Sixth District...
...best songs on Dylan's undervalued Street-Legal are heartbroken ballads, wounded, surly and defenseless by turns. Dylan delivers them in typically left-field fashion, backed by three women singers as he lets the songs rip like some Bleecker Street parody of a Vegas lounge lizard. In concert, with billowing shirt, plunging neckline and a crooner's microphone calisthenics, Dylan works his way through his standard repertory and sometimes looks as if he is auditioning for The Gong Show...
...incurable. Julio Cortázar's novel, A Manual for Manuel, is one Argentine expatriate's eccentric response to violence in his country (and to some extent Uruguay and Brazil) in the early 1970s. Cortzar, who has lived in Paris for some decades, writes in a surreal fashion. The effects can be dazzling - as in All Fires the Fire and Other Stories of several years ago. Here, in a disjointed narrative, he gives a low-key, comic and rather appealing picture of "the Screwery," a band of romantic South American revolutionaries based in France. As the book commences...
...left was a similar but bloodier version of that practiced by the Screwery. It paralyzed the country with out materially advancing the revolution aries' aims - and brought on the current repression. There have been some signs that the Videla regime would like to govern in a more moderate fashion, when extremists let them. And the pendulum swings on. - John Show
...NOBEL COMMITTEE'S award to Kissinger and Duc Tho in 1973 in like fashion prematurely honored a short-term settlement, reached for the exigencies of the moment--namely, the American desire for withdrawal. Perhaps the Nobel Committee should reevaluate the difference between short-term diplomacy and long-term commitment to human justice and lasting peace in the spirit of Steve Biko...