Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mortgage (though he would have to keep up the payments). Texas with rare exceptions permits a bankrupt to hold on to a car and house of any value. New Jersey, on the other hand, forces the sale of all bankrupts' houses, and will let a debtor hang on to only $ 1,000 worth of furniture and clothing...
Similarly, David Mamet's play is a sort of junk shop of language, and it too is forlornly eloquent. The speech of Mamet's three characters-the owner of the store and two neighborhood punks who hang out there-is an incrustation of street slang, non sequiturs, malapropisms and compulsive obscenity. The playwright revels a bit too much in this scatology and blasphemy. Delete the most common four-letter Anglo-Saxonism from the script and his drama might last only one hour instead of two. But Mamet has an infallible ear for the cadences of loneliness and fear...
...Washington as if it were any other one-night stand, sang at Jimmy Carter's Inaugural concert ("I was so nervous. My God, I was awful!") and then, on a whim, freighted on to Manhattan to watch a performance of NBC's Saturday Night show and to hang out with actors and rock friends. New York's Plaza, that swan-bosomed dowager among luxury hotels, has become a favorite roosting place for wealthy rockers (Ringo was there too). To Linda, the Plaza was just one more stop on the road, but it provided a splendid scenic view...
...swim gave Harvard an 8-1 victory in the event and an important 56-50 lead in the meet. In the next event, the 100-yd. breaststroke, Harvard also needed at least a second-place finish to hang onto the lead and have enough points to eventually win the meet...
Pete Carril didn't even have to hang on to his program...