Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some medical experts wondered why the surgeons did not tie off the large vein known as the inferior vena cava. That step could block the passage of clots that might form later on higher in the left iliac vein or in Nixon's right leg or in tributary veins from the left leg. It is not known how extensively during surgery the doctors examined the inferior vena cava for possible clots...
...physical side of our natures, which in most cases had been long buried. (It is a sign of the abysmal racism of both the counterculture and the parent culture from which it sprang that the Stones--like Elvis, a decade earlier--became vastly popular by doing unpolished, and frequently inferior, imitations of black songs that the same audiences had steadfastly ignored for years...
Muscatine said Radcliffe, which has a winning streak of 13 in dual matches, is at a natural disadvantage in large draw tournaments, where individual talent becomes as important as team depth. "A lot of schools have one really strong singles player," she said, who can progressively eliminate the slightly inferior team players that make up Radcliffe's strength...
...dream feeling that my life is the non-identical twin, a parody, an inferior variant of another man's life, somewhere on this or another earth. A demon, I felt, was forcing me to impersonate that other man, that other writer who was and would always be incomparably greater, healthier and crueller than your obedient servant...
...references to Vadim's novels scattered like confetti through Look at the Harlequins! (the complete works are conveniently listed in the front, under the heading: "Other Books by the Narrator") are in the same category. They contribute to the sense of parody, the feeling that Vadim is an "inferior variant" of Vladimir, but aside from that they serve only as another vehicle for still more exercises of arcane wit. Nabokov aficionados will take pleasure in matching up these variant titles with the originals, or comparing, say, Vadim's precocious daughter with Nabokov's Lolita, but no real light is shed...