Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novel, but an editor spotted a likely series hero and persuaded Westlake to rescue him. The result was a string of 16 violent, moody and unrelievedly antisocial Parker adventures, which Westlake signed "Richard Stark," mostly because his own name was too closely tied to lighter-than-air capers of the Dortmunder kind...
...film is also not without its lighter moments. Fassbinder has remarked that Biberkopf has an "unshakable faith in the good side of people," and the women he attracts to him are generally reflective of this disposition. In one particularly funny and touching scene, Biberkopf seduces Cilly, one of the many women who wander into and out of his life, by sharing a pair of boots with her: they are big enough for the two of them to wear together, he says, and proves it. The character of Frau Bast (Brigitte Mira), the nosy landlady, also adds comic relief...
...final effect they themselves cannot foresee but which are vitally affecting the Western--and the Communist--role in the fate of Asia... It was only 18 months ago that a 73-year-old Buddhist monk...sat down in...a Saigon street and...calmly set himself afire with a cigarette lighter to dramatize Buddhist opposition to the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem... At the time, the West had great sympathy for South Viet Nam's Buddhists. Now the atmosphere is different...
...Hubbard Avenue juvenile reported being punched and robbed of $3.00 cash and a lighter while walking on Walker Street near Linnaean...
...black in color." There was a time--hard to believe--that the term was considered inoffensive. Over the years, it evolved a huge number of variations, all pejorative, but not, apparently, until the 20th century did it become so execrable a term of opprobrium, especially among whites. Ironically, as Lighter says, many blacks use the N word as an "affectionate, ironic, jocular, or occasional complimentary epithet...