Word: meager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...induces a terse, desperate kind of sexuality, then thwarts it. But there the similarity ends. Robert Shaw portrays a stolid, ambitious owner of a small hired-car firm. Sarah Miles the balmy aristocrat whom he chauffeurs and who drives hi, in turn, to excess es of frustration. Miles' meager talents, her shrill, spindly posturings, have lost through incessant repetition the small novelty they might once have...
Though it's got a new face, the Square is still a place where anything can happen. So much for introductions. Here is, humbly, a student's guide to the Square, dedicated to the meager budget...
...Square offers rather meager prospects vis a vis grassy sports on which to sleep off the night before, or the meal, and to while away the time in between. And seclusion vanishes like hotcakes. The banks of the river Charles are likely to be packed with sunners, sleepers or cavorters who make either difficult. I suppose nobody would object to nakedness if you felt that you really needed it, but I've never seen it. (Four years ago a group of Radcliffe women were arrested running around without any clothes on in front of a camera crew on the highway...
Asked the incredulous Baker: "If you were concerned because the action was known to you to be illegal, because you thought it improper or unethical, that you thought the prospects for success were very meager and you doubted the reliability of Mr. Liddy, what on earth would it have taken to decide against that plan...
...however, David Grove, a vice president of IBM, foresees growth in real G.N.P.-that is, production discounted for price boosts-slowing to a meager 2.2%, from 6.4% this year. In the second and third quarters, he predicts, real G.N.P. will rise a shade less than 1%. Corporate profits in 1974, he believes, will drop 3½% below 1973, in painful contrast to a 23% leap this year over 1972. Otto Eckstein elaborates on some of the reasons: housing construction is dropping, runaway auto sales are bound to fall, and a decline in retail sales is "inevitable...