Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then came the bad temper of my roommate, as brisk and fast as the winter cold that swept up against the windows of our second-floor flat from the Place Contrescarpe twenty meters away. My roommate was often angry at me, and there were a lot of things he did that made me angry too, and I suppose the problem wouldn't have been as bad if we hadn't both been morning drinkers but then Paris is a morning drinker's town and we felt in Paris in those days that wine was a good thing, it made...
...Evelyn Mandac (Almirena) and Noelle Rogers (Armida) the Baroque bravura he gets from Home, but Mandac is an especially lovely singer with a bright future. In Samuel Ramey (Argante), Foster has a bass baritone of extraordinary dramatic and lyric gifts, and it is easy to see why Ramey is fast filling the shoes and cape of the late Norman Treigle in Houston, at the New York City Opera and else where around the U.S. William Bender
...grain. The U.S. is eager to tap the Soviet oil barrel, largely for political reasons. The U.S.S.R. passed the U.S. last year as the world's largest oil producer and now pumps 9.5 million bbl. daily v. 8.3 for the U.S. But Soviet consumption is rising fast too, so that the Russians have little oil to spare for the U.S.; the amounts talked of in the letter of intent would supply only 1.2% of U.S. daily needs. Rather, an oil deal promises political benefits for the U.S.: advancing détente, demonstrating to OPEC that the U.S. is determined...
...work force. Pan Am's third-quarter profit also reflects savings realized because of route swaps concluded with TWA and American Airlines earlier in the year. Those swaps eliminated head-to-head competition in flights to more than a dozen major overseas cities. In the fast-growing mid-Pacific market (California-Hawaii-Hong Kong), Pan Am has added flights and carried profitably heavy loads since last spring. As a result of the route exchanges and higher international fares, the percentage of seats that must be filled for Pan Am to break even on Pacific flights has been chopped...
...adult heroes in the book become weird variants of Groucho Marx, perhaps spawned by Michaels' boyhood watching the Yiddish theater: wise guys who fast-talk on capitalist society's turf and win. In "Reflections of a Wild Kid," Michaels's persona makes it with an ex-girlfriend by removing the woman's present boyfriend, a nerdish college professor. The persona's method: piss out the window of the woman's apartment, hide in the closet and let the police seize the wrong man--the boyfriend--when they come around. Michaels describes this as "genius...