Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BOOK is incredibly tight. The flow of words is inevitable. A measure of the quality of the writing is that it is totally unobtrusive and unnoticed except in the two or three spots where a word sounds gratingly out of place. Then you know how perfectly placed everything else must...
...scene: Hank, an Ivy-League looking math teacher and his lover, fashion photographer Larry; Bernard, a cool black; Emory, a prissy, swishy interior decorator. By the time Harold (the birthday boy), Cowboy (a hustler given to Harold for the night as a present) and Alan appear, the flow of liquor and grass has locked all those present into a violent orgy of sadistic-masochistic emotional destruction; no one may leave until he touches the bottom of his soul and accepts what he finds there...
...flow begins with the white-to-purple-flowered opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, an annual plant grown as a cash crop in Turkey, Mexico and the "golden triangle" of Southeast Asia: the northern portions of Burma, Thailand and Laos. The U.S. is putting heavy pressure on Turkey to end legal poppy growing, so far without much success. Raw opium is converted into so-called morphine base; much of the U.S. supply is refined into heroin at simple clandestine laboratories in southern France. It has come into the U.S. concealed in the toilets of international jets, in cans carrying Spanish fish labels...
Discount for Delay. Fearing a serious balance of payments crisis, the Bank of Italy then acted to stanch the flow of lire. In a stunningly simple move, the bank decreed that lire from abroad would henceforth be converted to other currencies only at the bank's headquarters in Rome. It also made it clear that clerks would take their time handling the transactions. Swiss banks immediately passed on the cost of delay by accepting lira deposits only at discounts...
...increases won in the autumn strikes. Yet to achieve the rate of investment necessary for the economy to continue to grow, the country needs a government capable of inspiring confidence. Until such a government comes to power, even Italian officials admit that the new rules will not stop the flow of lire across the border...