Word: guess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loss and spiritual devastation that has at least a decade's worth of pain packed tight beneath its terse lyrics. Don, who uses the Random House Dictionary and a thesaurus when he writes, expresses grateful surprise when he is complimented on the song but agrees, after a while, "I guess that's life experience I'm writing from now. Born Yesterday took me three to four years to write." "That song," says his brother, "points out that we're all like children. Do any of us really grow...
...guess, there is a great deal of unnecessary filler used to pad the otherwise flat main idea. For example, too much of the plot revolves around Leslie's attempt at cooking dinner for the IRS agent and his would-be mother-in-law (what else would a wife do?). The dish, 'mung-chowder gumbo' is like much of the play's intended humor--it never materializes. Aside from the failed attempts at comedy, the play strives to excite some reaction from an otherwise limp audience with a series of sexist jokes. Lines such as "you're my kind of woman...
...guess the administration learned this from their Jersey friends. Princeton, too, has exams after vacation. I guess that's why everyone at Princeton doesn't do any work...
...alone so late at night. It's a good thing I wasn't sleazy enough to be wearing a short skirt or a lot of makeup, because then I would have deserved even more than I got. And who am I to try to stop a bank robbery? I guess it's been so long since I had an experience like this that I forgot about not being free to move around at night...
...Hustler,' that's degrading. Isn't that right, girls?" Chan asked. I knew that the right thing to say would be: 'Oh, yes! I can't wait to be in Playboy!" But I couldn't get over the feeling of playing a part, so I punted with "I guess that's part...