Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Have a" is basically used in front of anything you want to ridicule. "Don't get it bent" is the shortened form of "Don't get your nose bent," which is supposedly what happens to people when they...
...appears that independence on the terms of the Parti Quebecois (P.Q.) would not be a real independence at all, only a new form of dependence. The significant changes which the P.Q. seems to want can in all likelihood be obtained within a further decentralized federalism, without the pageantry and the insecurities of formal independence...
...population. Nationalism has been exacerbated in Quebec because of the persistent confusion between class antagonism and linguistic and national divisions. The English Canadians have historically dominated the ranks of the business elite, so when French workers conflict with management, they conflict with an English management. Class antagonism assumes the form of national antagonism, and reinforces the already present nationalist element...
...Egyptians below Tutankhamun's level lived. Pompeii has everything, even some mild and (by modern standards) charmingly humane pornography. Thus it has been big cultural box office ever since 1834, when Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii created the catastrophe novel as a form of entertainment. ("Alas! Alas!" murmured Ione, "I can go no farther; my steps sink among the scorching cinders. Fly, dearest!-beloved, fly! and leave me to my fate...
...Most people conceive of excessive paperwork as having to make 35 copies of the same form, but it is actually having to write 35 different reports containing the same information." Wellington said...