Word: lopsidedness
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Burgess's most personal predilections come into play not only with the lopsided Englishness of his choices but with his embrace of verbally experimental books (Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan, John Earth's Giles Goat-Boy) and of sci-fi or futuristic visions (Kingsley Amis' The...
The Koppels, their children (Andrea, 20; Deirdre, 18; Andrew, 13; and Tara, 12) and Grace Anne's father live in a modern house in Potomac, Md. They spend little time on Washington's social scene. Says NBC Correspondent Marvin Kalb, who collaborated with Koppel on a bestselling 1977...
The announcement came only a day after the P.L.O. had completed negotiations with Israel that resulted in an enormous, if lopsided, exchange of prisoners of war: six Israeli soldiers, held since September 1982, in return for more than 4,500 Palestinians and Lebanese captured by the Israelis during the war...
Some Israelis were unhappy about the lopsided nature of the exchange, but Prime Minister Shamir defended it. Said he: "We paid a high price, but we were faced with the fact that at any moment the worst could happen." Former Prime Minister Menachem Begin, breaking a three-month public silence...
And if it hadn't been for senior goalie Cheryl Tate's virtuoso performance, the score would have been even more lopsided. The co-captain made 42 saves, 21 in the second period.