Word: freak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with loud music and people pouring beer on each other's heads; where your roommate leeringly asks you if you have laid your girlfriend yet... you must have read about it somewhere.) Pookie is slightly neurotic, if one would describe a person with all the symptoms of a speed-freak in those words. Jerry is straightman. He is so deeply affected by contact with the chick that his inch-long hair becomes tousled and he starts wearing a sweater instead of a three-piece suit...
...illustrated by Ben Shecter (Harper & Row; $2.95). "I hate hate hated my friend." So begins this tale of a hot but brief misunderstanding between two little girls that is finally solved by confrontation: "When I wore my new dress, Sue said Jane said you said I looked like a freak." "I did not! I said you looked neatl...
Whites, blacks, radicals, liberals, conservatives, heterosexuals, homosexuals, sado-masochists, women-liberators, male chauvinists, Wellesley girls: Moring, Noon and Night will freak you all out. There will be fist-fights at the Loeb this week; nasty words and name calling; walkouts galore. Something is happening over there, and that something should not be missed...
This year, starts of houses and apartments dropped from an annual rate of 1,900,000 in January to 1,300,000 in August. Despite a September upturn, which most economists dismiss as a freak performance by volatile statistics, the rate of housing starts may dip below 1,000,000 by year's end. "We are facing the worst housing shortage that we have had since the end of World War II," says Walter Hoadley, executive vice president of California's Bank of America. "The crisis is going to get worse...
...Jimmy Miller. 241 pages. Knopf. $5.95. After the virtual depopulation of the U.S. and Russia by a Chinese poison plague in A.D. 2004, a tough New Yorker, a beautiful Parisian aristocrat and a hippie from Venus hunt for the missing Chinese war criminals. An overstrained, social-satire freak...