Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interest is low, it's certainly not because the issue isn't pervasive. Just now, a familiar figure with a shredded overcoat and shopping cart brimming with empty soda cans has stopped outside my dorm window, inspecting his inventory, maybe worrying about the onset of frigid nights. The march is for him, and for his family...
...deals with all of life and not theexclusive domain of conventions and acceptedvalues of the majority," Bakanowsky saidyesterday. "We're going in the wrong direction.The East bloc is going towards more freedom, andwe're going in the opposite direction. Isn't itironic...
When I got my first razor in tenth grade, it was an electric. I've never given it much use, and for that reason it's lasted, and I've never bought another. Shaving simply isn't a priority with me. Not that I would be described as stubblefaced. It's just that I'm stuck in that stage when the difference between my shaven and unshaven faces is not apparent to the casual observer...
Most Chinese nursery schools display a mural of young, cherubic children riding a dragon. The dragon represents China; the well-fed kids symbolize a prosperous future. But outside a primary school in Kai Kong, a factory town in Guangdong province, the traditional mural is decidedly modern. There isn't anything special about the dragon, but the fat children are carrying cameras, videocassette recorders and boom boxes...
This is embarrassing, but I am standing in front of 14 Carrots, the health- food store, looking at a little blue convertible and thinking, "Aw, isn't it cute?" I do not usually gurgle about cars. Like other citizens with some mileage on them, I used to love cars, maybe 30 years ago, and then I grew up. Now when a hunk of junk that cost twice the price of my first house needs new front shocks at only 120,000 miles, my feeling is bitter resentment. Americans hate their cars...