Word: grindingers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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And after shunning her roomates cynicism, Deb joins in lament and tooth-grinding agony after her own love affair with Danny. Like Debbie, Danny merges character and cro-magnon consciousness with Bernie (who thinks all women should be wrung like lemons and then "dropped like a fucking hot potato"). But...
In the preface to Silences, Tillie Olsen takes a sentence from Andre' Gide as her epigram: "I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance." It is in her discussion of the subtler, unspoken, often unconscious ways society has of grinding human beings down that she comes closest to...
This is risky, but perhaps inescapable?in view of the alternatives. Jimmy Carter last month called the conference only when he became convinced that the Middle East peace initiative, dramatized last November by Sadat's "sacred mission" to Jerusalem, was grinding to a dangerous halt, and that conventional diplomacy had...
Strike three. Christ-a tie ball game. It really got Bobby's bile up when the high-paid hitters couln't hit homeruns during clutch situations. They're pulling in hundreds of thousands of dollars to play a game and he had to leave home and sweat away eight hours...
Once MGM churned out fantasies on film, but now the studios are mostly sold off or grinding out TV fluff. MGM is best known today for its hotels and casinos, lavish Disneylands for grownups with high-roller dreams. The MGM Grand Hotels make dollar-and-cents sense; in the past...