Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home about the cost. When someone quipped that it would be cheaper to pave the alley with money, the Philadelphia Daily News decided to enlist the services of Director Joel Bloom of the city's Franklin Institute to see what $250,000 would literally cover. Ignoring dollar bills ("inferior wearing quality," noted the News), Bloom figured that the street could be paved with dimes for $58,368 and quarters for $82,080. In fact, Bloom added, the city could cover the alley with separate layers of dimes and quarters and still have enough left over from the quarter million...
...this formula miss the second time around? It's difficult to say. It was probably not due to the band's lack of talent. At the least, they handled their instruments adeptly. The arrangements, however, were noticeably inferior to those on Rock and Roll Animal, particularly "White Light/White Heat" and "Rock and Roll." The lead guitarist concentrated mostly on rhythm which left a void in many of the arrangements. Finally, the give and take between Reed and his band during the Academy of Music sessions was more pronounced--the band was given a share of the limelight during the instrumental...
...Annenberg estate in Palm Springs early in September. At some point, Nixon's physicians say, a part of that clot, or possibly a new one, broke loose. The embolus was carried away in the bloodstream, like debris in a fast-flowing river, through the iliac vein and the inferior vena cava into the heart (see diagram...
...this anyone we know? That question constantly haunts Vadim Vadimych: "I now confess that I was bothered ... by a dream feeling that my life was the nonidentical 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 crueler than your obedient servant...
...admit inferior girls simply to have more girls on campus," he says...