Word: lot
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Trillin says the subject has a lot to do with the way it seems sensible to him to write it. In his 15 years at the New Yorker, Trillin has reported on a wide range of subjects. Murders. A Chinese town in California bought by a Hong-Kong developer. Integration of Atlanta schools in the fall of '61. The idea of foodwriting, he said, came to him as a sort of "comic relief...
...ELECTION campaigns of Senators Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) and Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) say a lot about the state of the American Right this year. It's not that their likely victories will actually contribute to the much-fabled Shift to the Right. They will not preside over the funeral of the "New South" (a fashionable phrase since at least the 1870s). There will be no total surrender to the beast that just gobbled Michael Dukakis...
...There were a lot of shocked faces when we first walked in, but after we had been there for about an hour, there were a lot of pleased faces," Mary Anne Z. Kocur '81, one of the eight women, said yesterday. "Ninety per cent of the members seemed to think it was a good idea," she added...
...said that she would not consider joining, because, "I am personally against the elitism that a lot of these clubs seem to belive...
...films in England," Fonda feels, "where everything is in one place. Here film and theater are separated by the width of the continent, and it's not easy to uproot children from school, mothers and wives from homes to live in a hotel. I've done a lot of theater because I want to. If I'm away from it for a while I miss the audience contact, and even more the joy of creating something from start to finish. Film is still a director's medium...