Word: hating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maggot is not as unlikely as it seems, for the author is drawn to all forms of dissent, whatever the orthodoxy. Although a novelist of established eminence, he chooses to be "unconnected" to conventional literary life: "I don't know other writers or read any literary magazines. I hate reviewing. I don't lecture or give readings. The novel is a print medium, meant to come through the eyes, not the ears. All that readings show you is whether the novelist is a good actor...
...criticism that came after he started Moral Majority. His wife had placed a bowl of fresh strawberries on the table and he picked at them. Outside, wide green lawns shaded by towering white oaks stretched around the white-columned house. Over the years, Falwell has received his share of hate mail, envelopes that contained used condoms and human feces. His house is surrounded by 8-ft.-high concrete walls, and security men track him constantly. Despite these precautions, his mailbox has been blown up several times...
Aged feelings at 26 are rampant in tennis. At 32, Jimmy Connors, Curren's victim in the semifinals, has realized a bitter truth: "I hate to hear anyone say, 'When I was playing . . .' because nobody gives a damn about when you were playing. Nobody cares about anything but now." In the women's division, where Shirley Temples turn into Gloria Swansons overnight, glory would seem to be especially fleeting, and from third place down it is. "You want to grab every moment and enjoy it fully," says Barbara Potter, a self- described "middle-aged tennis player...
...hate to see the only department store go,' said Phyllis O'Connor of Arlington. Lugging her grandson through the television department, she added that she was going to miss shopping at the family store, famous for its variety of low-cost merchandise...
...dazzled much of Europe as a top Paris model. Then she came to New York City where she now earns $300,000 a year with the Elite modeling agency. She is here on a working visa and has not yet decided to seek citizenship. "What I love and hate about the U.S. are the same things. I hate that there is so little culture here. This is such a young country that it seems nouveau riche. But what is also so great about the U.S. is that because it is so young, it does not have any of the skepticism...