Word: gasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into the Job Corps. Next scene: having been thoroughly rehabilitated, Danny Driftwood wins Bouncy-Belle, a nubile if ungrammatical Sekkatery. The Job Corps is stashing 500,000 copies of the book in neighborhoods where comics pass for literature in the hope that potential no-goodniks will get (GASP!) the message...
...Silverstone, Jim Clark (TIME, cover, July 9) has had just about all the excitement he can stand. There he was in his little green Lotus, leading Graham Hill by a comfortable 35 sec., with the race four-fifths over. Coming out of a bend, Clark stepped on the accelerator. Gasp. Cough...
...After all when pretty Tom (aspiring actor) and pregnant Teena (aspiring wife) step on stage in their underwear and start singing a cigarette add ("The Breeze at night is just as good as the Breeze in the morning") one certainly gets a fine sense of trivia. Shortly we discover (gasp of Recognition) that the play is really about the younger generation and growing up and accepting responsibility. Tom and Teena, we find, live unmarriedly in midtown Manhattan in a messy apartment displaying anti-bourgeois scorn for neatly preserved possessions (their sofa is an automobile seat) and a flair for camp...
...blunt: if Paris could not be defended against the onrushing Allied armies, it was to be destroyed. The bridges of the Seine, Notre Dame, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre, even the Eiffel Tower, were to be blasted to oblivion. The conquerors were to find that, in its dying gasp, the Thousand-Year Reich had leveled a thousand years of Western history's most treasured monuments, leaving Paris, in Hitler's words, "nothing but a blackened field of ruins...
...entered the Yard, Bundie spotted the Chief walking up the steps of Grays Hall. "Chief! Chief! I've found a clue!" he barely managed to gasp...