Word: flows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such judgments lose much of their potency when delivered by a narrator whose life centers around probing the limits of alcoholism and sexual perversion. Obscenities, apparently varied and clever in the original Russian, flow steadily and unendingly through Limonov's rocky prose. These have been translated with a singular lack of inspiration into either "fuck" or "shit," and serve rather to dull one's sensibilities than to shock them. Likewise, Eddie's staggering feats of drinking become banal with repetition. Thankfully, vodka does not interfere with the lucidity of either his narration or his pain. Although he describes...
...climate), in order to make a few dollars to spend on candy and baseball cards and such? "What an enterprising youngster you are," one of your parents probably said to you at the time, adding, "Small-scale risk-capital endeavors will teach you the pleasures and pitfalls of cash-flow management...
...street performing, he said, "Not only is it good for cash flow... you're sharing your art with people who would never go to a concert hall." "Rough kids who only listen to rock music will stop and listen to Bach for 10 minutes," he added...
...main biological reward of working out is more immediate: the mystical "runner's high" associated with strenuous exertion. Some experts speculate that during prolonged, intense exercise, the right, or creative, hemisphere of the brain takes over from the normally dominant left, or analytical, side, allowing associations to flow freely...
Those favoring divestiture contend that the flow of foreign capital has not improved condition for Blacks in the country the gap between white and Black wages was not significantly altered during the years in which economic growth was fueled by foreign investment. Moreoever, few Black have been accepted in managerial positions in commerce and industry In come cases increased American investment has made industry more capital intensive and actually reduced the number of Black employees And, during the period of great economic growth. Black political rights have, if anything, been reduced by the growth of discriminatory and repressive legislation...