Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, no one operates any form of gambling without extracting a commission. But the biggest bite is clearly in lotteries, and the biggest of all is New York's 60%. Counting both the state's cut and operating expenses, the takeout in Maine and Ohio is 55%; in New Hampshire, which started the legal lottery craze in 1964, it is 50%. To get a piece of what is left, a ticket buyer still has to compete with the number of other tickets against him. The odds for winning any prize are not good. In New York, for instance...
...true translation, insists the Bible Society's Eugene A. Nida. The Living Bible is "interested in what the author intended. We are interested in what he said." This does not mean word-for-word translation. Says one project expert, "There is no way to translate the Hebrew poetic form into decent English." The modernizers did, however, preserve the meaning of every sentence. Besides its readable style, the Good News Bible helps readers along with explanatory notes, and it is graced with 500 stylized line drawings by Swiss Artist Annie Vallotton...
Desperate Hedonism. Is J.J. Wolfe really the murderer? Through most of the book, neither Bone nor the reader can be quite sure, though circumstantial evidence certainly points that way. In any case. Bone cannot stop Cutter's quest for "justice." True to form, he tags along through a series of manic misadventures involving more sex and booze than sleuthing. Tension mounts. Can respectable Wolfe be responsible for the fire that guts Cutter's house and kills his girl and their baby son? Finally the odd pair journey to Wolfe's home in Missouri-and doom...
...novel's form-pursuit and confrontation-owes much to the conventional thriller. But Cutter and Bone is much more than skillful entertainment. The places and people ring true, from the desperate hedonism of coastal California, "where America kept trying out the future," to the Ozarks heartland, where piety and patriotism barely camouflage a native instinct for violence. Cutter and Bone's own story is charged with a kind of passionate cynicism that makes even grotesques seem likable and, more important, credible right up to the last, startling sentence. Philip Herrera
...expression "male chauvinist pigs" at a recent R-H Women's Center discussion. Many years ago I vowed never to fall back on that term in public or private; I have never done so; and while I have been known to employ the shorter form "pigs" with perhaps too great abandon, the aforementioned quote cannot be ascribed accurately...