Word: grows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outside the narrator's semi-illusory world Emily continues to grow, and the world becomes increasingly sinister and dangerous. Emily's attempt to organize a commune of unprotected children fails, a victim to the increasing savagery of the others. The air becomes unbreathable, cannibalism becomes more common. As Emily becomes a woman, her protective composure breaks. She weeps the tears of the "eternal woman"--tears in which "it is not the pain...that is the point, no it is the finality of the acceptance of a wrong. So it was, is now, and ever must be, say those closed, oozing...
More important, capitalism's superior productivity is not solely a matter of electric toothbrushes and throwaway soft-drink bottles: the system also does better at filling basic human needs like food. Farmers in the capitalist U.S., Canada and Australia grow enough not only to feed their own peoples but also to export huge surpluses. In contrast, the Soviet Union?although 30% of its workers labor on its vast farmlands?has to import food. So does India, which permits private farming but insists out of socialist principle that the produce be sold at unrealistically low prices...
...Lafayette Cemetery Number One in New Orieans, bright green vines grow out of the cracks in the graves, which are above ground, made of red brick covered with whitewashed plaster. The whitewash is powdery and comes off on your hands and sometime when the green vines grow big, they break off chunks of the plaster on the graves and the red brick shows through...
...appeal. By the time he hit high school he'd mastered the art of the somersault and maybe even a cartwheel but when it came to girls he'd usually slip off his social shoelaces just often enough to give the cool kids a yuk or two. Well, losers grow up and when they start making their first twenty or thirty thousand, people stop laughing at them. Unless, of course they can capitalize on their embarrassment and go professional. Since Charlie Chaplin turned the loser into a comic classic, some of the most successful comedians hit the bigtime on verbal...
...eleven names on the list are matched with presents, a pile of gifts continues to grow. Four briefcases, three gold cigarette lighters, a necklace, one duffle bag and a bracelet are ready to go, but Elton has a problem. "What are we going to get for Skunk?" he asks, referring to Guitarist Jeff Baxter. "Does he smoke...