Word: guts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like a racing spinnaker pulling him off-balance onto his toes. He moves toward me. He is quite solidly built, despite being over 80 years old, but he has skinny legs dangling below this massive torso, and his arms tend to hang limply on either side of his gut. His head is enormous, completely hairless, speckled, and flattened on top. He has a spectacular hooked nose, beady little eyes, and odd set of small, fleshy lips and a knobby little chin which, despite his obesity, would occasionally detach itself from his neck. I am trying desparately to avoid thinking what...
Bock is ambivalent about the idea of a mandatory national program. "My gut reaction is 'yes,' but I'm not sure the body politic as a whole is acute enough to accept it," he says. On the other hand, Bock thinks "'no,' too. There should be no political fight on a scientific issue. The issue is already too charged with emotion and politics," he says...
...Secret Service, borders on the embarrassing. The equation fails not, of course, because it isn't accurate, but because it is so obvious and, in the end, so trivial. The author would be well advised to leave the political profundity to the philosophers and sociologists, and stick to the gut-level dramatic dialogue that he knows best...
Until there is a significant shift in the city's temperament which goes beyond a gut feeling of revulsion for individual politicos, and instead points towards a greater confidence in systematic changes, the city will have to celebrate the funerals of demagogues in place of a political renaissance. --Mike Kendall
What further compounds the already present threats to rent control is that if he wins reelection, Clem says he will propose a rent control "improvement" that, while it would not gut the existing laws, would loosen them and impress many as opening the door to more extensive changes...