Word: lost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other times, though, the messages seem lost in transit. For instance, Groffo dances on a table at Dave's baptism. He flails about in a russet suit on an orange tablecloth, only to fall on an orange roast pig which has an orange in its mouth and is lit by orange candles at its head. For Groffo to fall on the pig is appropriate but for everything to be orange makes no sense...
...coxswain, I can't afford the calories in a Scorpion Bowl from the Kong, so in the past week I've read six trashy novels. I've watched countless hours of sitcom reruns on the tube. And I've played so much pinball I need a charge account for "Lost World" at Tommy's Yesterday I was so bored I even read a book for my thesis, and it's not due 'til March...
...True or false: the Bruins have never lost a game to the Washington Capitals. Also, have the Canadiens ever even been tied by Washington...
...gotten out in time. For 20 years Updike and his mellifluous prose have wandered through suburbia, exploring the desiccated guilt and lust of the well-off with a familiar eye. Updike, to be sure, became master of the art, rivalled only by John Cheever, but his recent novels had lost their fire--less compelling, almost tedious, they droned on, as if to say You have read my life so many times before, what more can I say? The painful autobiographical power of Couples petered out to a sense of dry boredom in A Month of Sundays and Marry...
...Soviet teams played a total of eight games against NHL teams, and lost only twice. The Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Soviet Army. Who beat the Soviet Wings...