Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...test my source's reliability, I asked him to repeat the "potato catechism." He lowered his voice and began, "O'Brien, lyonnaise, new potatoes, oven-broiled, mashed, skincredibles and home fries. Then back to O'Brien...
...seem to understand," I continued, "the ridiculous policy of choices. Back at home, Mom doesn't make me choose between, say, chicken and egg rolls. She lets me have both...
Without offering a shred of evidence, the author proceeds to attack psychiatrists as "oddballs, Christ beards and psychotics" who were "exceptionally lonely and unhappy, socially ostracized at school and abused at home, either psychologically or physically." The article would make decent toilet reading if it didn't pretend to be nonfiction...
THIS summer, one prominent Harvard liberal extolled to me, over a few beers, the virtues of living in New York City. I told her that I prefer my little home-town in West Virginia, where you can leave your keys in your car, and where no one would think of walking past a starving man on the sidewalk. "Yes," she said, looking at me impatiently, "but what can you do on weekends...
Another variable which enters into today's action is Brown's home-field advantage. Stephenson Field has an astroturf surface with a large crown. The ball tends to roll much more freely on artificial turf than on grass, assisting Brown's territorial game...