Word: filles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...constitution suspended and the monarch deposed"--becomes for Updike the vehicle of a biting, driving wit, a brilliant farce that together lambastes America, the Soviet Union, radicals, bureaucrats, poets, capitalists and, of course, lovers. Being Updike, the author retains enough of his obsession with bedroom mores and manners to fill the book with ruminations of love and lust, the foibles of marriage and the freedom of adultery--but happily, these are only a small percentage of the whole, ornaments rather than the centerpiece. This is a book with larger visions than that...
Occupancy rates nationwide have jumped from about 64% in 1975 to more than 72%, and many top hostelries in big cities are doing even better. First-class hotels in Dallas were almost 80% filled last year. Week after week in Houston's Southwest Galleria district, the Galleria Plaza and the Houston Oaks fill 95% of their rooms. Chicago's O'Hare Hilton runs at more than 100% capacity-with strangers bedding down with strangers or sleeping on couches in the lobby and in booths in the restaurant-when storms or fog grounds planes. Says General Manager Lynn...
...well as tools for woodcarving, instrument making and boat designing. In his younger days, Bok earned his keep crewing on boats and working in the shipyards, but his voyages now are for recreation only. The long trips he reserves for his imagination. "A song is a vessel you fill with your living," Bok once wrote, a definition full of fancy homespun that suits a man who calls himself "a traditional folk singer," but whose craft and dreams are directed toward something a little grander. Toward being a folk artist. As an anthropologist might...
...years ago he struggles to fill out the application for admission to Harvard College. Now he is sending notes to the Admissions Office about a woman ice hockey player he is trying to recruit for the team he coaches. The athlete finds that he has picked up many habits of those who coached him. The style, the techniques, the sayings. And he finds he does the same things he said he'd never do if he were coach. And he finds that the players have plenty to say about him just as he had to say about his coaches...
...diver, then continued her winning ways with victories off the one-meter and three-meter boards. Although Stone won convincingly in both events, Harvard cut only one point off Dartmouth's lead. Diving coach John Walker said he is looking for "two more divers of Pam's caliber" to fill out the squad...