Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COLD in Great Barrington. The sun, as if shining through a prism of ice cast a brittle, pale yellow light on the oval field where the crowd had gathered, and the chill, biting wind that whistled through the trees encircling the lot seemed to bode ill. But the expected trouble-an attempt to disrupt the dedication ceremonies-did not come and was soon forgotten as the crowd took stock of itself and the ceremonies...
...only exceptions I have come across are the works of Richard Brautigan, Hall of Mirrors by Robert Stone, possibly Pynchon's Crying a Lot 49, and Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. It is not Farina's occasional reference to Buddy Holly that makes him post-rock, but rather the impression one gets from the novel that it was written with the Stones constantly playing in the background. The book is driven by a constant mindless throb of energy...
...lot of the guys who write these prediction columns make a point of smearing their percentage of correct picks all over the column. Patent Trader's Ron Melancon does it, too. I like to think of myself as being a bit above such vanity. You don't have to keep pushing a figure in the reader's face for him to realize that you're a great...
...Chinese; garlic makes it good." She is similarly cavalier about the tools of her trade. "Other books say, 'Do not, do not! Do not try to make a souffle unless you have a souffle dish.' They make cooking sound like a fantastic science, and that makes a lot of people afraid to cook." Never fear, is Alice's message; to party givers who run short of plates, she suggests improvising with tinfoil-lined automobile hubcaps...
Proponents of ship subsidies also wave the issue of national defense. "There are still a lot of military people," says Bernard Ruskin, an official of the National Maritime Union, "who think that a ship like the United States, which can carry a full division and can outrun any submarine, ought to be kept up." But after taking account of its huge fleet of transport planes, the Defense Department announced several years ago that it had no need for passenger ships to carry troops...