Word: grindinger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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I should start by admitting that I don't recall Cambridge with particular affection. I miss the orange juice and the wonderful libraries and a few paintings in the Fogg and I certainly miss the New England countryside. But as an experience, as a way to pass four years. Harvard...
LIKE A LITERARY KRONOS, John Barth has stuffed each of his fictional offspring down his maw and let forth an echoing belch of a novel. The noise deafens; Barth blushes. With reason--many an atrocity litters Letters's past, including the authorial analogues of incest, cannibalism and flagellation. But what...
Close your eyes and slip back in time. It's the high school homecoming game. You are 16, the band is grinding out an off-key school fight song, the cheerleaders' pom-poms flutter in the breeze.
Still, the new government offered a welcome if temporary relief from the grinding stalemate among the three largest parties, which have been unable to make the compromises necessary for a lasting coalition. The Communists, who dropped to 30% of the vote in last June's election, demand Cabinet seats...
In the script the scene took a few lines and a gallon or two of purple ink. The helicopter slams into the rock "with a grinding scream, the blades crumple back like spaghetti, still twisting in a slow-motion convulsion of shrieking metal. Like a great dying bird, it seems...