Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Corliss insists he really does know everyone he lets through without asking for Harvard identification. "We know most of them by sight.... The ones you get to know are the ones who don't just come in at the change of classes. Sometimes the girls will fool you--they come in with different hairdos, say you always used to know them, but you don't--so I ask for their cards anyway...
...wave" label fool you into expecting leather-jacket nihilism. You won't find members of this band stabbing their girlfriends and slitting their wrists with crushed light bulbs. Anyone who listens to Blondie will see that the group is closer to the Ronettes than to the Ramones. In fact, if Eno had produced the Ronettes, the result would probably have sounded like Parallel Lines...
...Baptist minister told a reporter, "God will have a special place for the Ku Klux Klan in heaven." A black Huntsville minister brought the clipping of the quote to his church the following Sunday morning. "The Ku Klux Klan will have a special place in hell! That's fool talk! There's nothing worse than an old fool...I'm going to pray for this man and I ask you to pray for him, too," he told his congregation. That morning, following the service, the church received a bomb threat. On Labor Day weekend, another Klan meeting drew 9000 people...
...news organizations have to do this work? Where are the fuzz and the feds when you need them? "I'd never fool with the government," Appleton advises inflamed citizens. "Too slow. By the time they get around to solving a problem, the guy has either solved it himself or died." No exaggeration, that. Here is how the Providence Journal-Bulletin had to answer E.M. of Cranston, R.I., who had complained that the Social Security people were giving him the runaround: "Sadly, we are writing this answer to E.M.'s widow. (See story on Page...
...salesclerk in Manhattan department stores. By the time of his brother's death in 1944, Singer had become a recognized writer-but only to readers of a dying language. One of them was a young novelist named Saul Bellow, who translated Singer's tale, Gimpel the Fool, the story of a village simpleton transfigured by the belief that the next world "will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception." Remembers Singer: "This story brought me so much popularity-somehow I have the strange feeling that all the literary people in America read that one issue of Partisan...