Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fool on the Hill; a toe-tapping piece that may serve as a generational link, Your Mother Should Know ("though she was born a long, long time ago"); and a wild lark called I Am the Walrus, with fast, fractured Lennonesque lyrics: "Man, you been a naughty boy. You let your face grow long." Side 2 contains such classics as Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields Forever, and the youthfully poignant Hello Goodbye ("I don't know why you say goodbye. I say hello...
...common pattern for a married couple to start off in a small apartment, move to the suburbs when the children arrive, shift from suburb to suburb as income rises, and then move back into the city after the children are grown-decorating and redecorating all along the way. Let there be a divorce, and the master bedroom, if not the whole house, is sure to be redone by the remaining partner. And even without such upheavals, Americans think of change as a form of therapy. "People can afford to be bored," says Dallas Decorator Howard Goldman. "They can now tire...
...Let's face it," says Killy. "I am risking my whole reputation on three quick races. If I win, everybody will say, 'Well, of course, he was supposed to win.' If I lose, they will say I let them down. I don't want to make alibis, but I tell you that in skiing, it takes nothing to lose. The wrong wax oh the skis, a spot of soft snow, a slight miscalculation and-poof!-the race is over. I can only do my best. That...
...insanity. The book's real villain is the pointlessness of life, and in Paris literary circles this is a very fashionable villain indeed. Author Le Clézio, 27, frankly enjoys life himself-he is an ardent jazz and movie buff-but he is much too clever to let the fact seep into his books. If he had to choose a bedside volume, he says, it would be Alice in Wonderland. Perhaps Le Clézio should reread that work more closely. As Tweedledum remarked of Alice's weeping: "I hope you don't suppose those...
...Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter...