Word: messing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that all of the dogs are safely locked away in some distant catacomb. On both points I am to be disappointed. After a few taps I hear a single distant barker, soon joined by another and then another. Suddenly I see that the whole hallway is a swelling mess of howling, leaping, nadly salivating dogs. All of them seem to be at least three feet tall at the shoulder and as fat as toads. a bored and sleepy youg man, who appears to be the night watchman, materializes at the door, regards me abstractly for a moment and opens...
Inevitably, the political situation is explosive, and the guerrillas' numbers and supporters are rapidly multiplying. Somoza lives in fear of his subjects and of the guerillas' dexterity. Tanks and barricades surround the dictator's urban ranch. When he goes out for dinner, his mess steward prepares his food beforehand lest someone attempt to poison him. Any area Somoza visits is literally placed under military siege several hours before his arrival, and he is protected by 200 bodyguards armed with Belgian automatic firearms and knives. When he makes a public speech, Somoza speaks from behind an enormous protective contraption referred...
...film makers foul themselves up this way? Why mess around paying good money for the rights to Wertmuller's film and then have to pretend that her ironic perceptions about Sicily have anything to do with Los Angeles and the Imperial Valley? Why not just say, "O.K., we'll start with Pryor, and he can be, I dunno, a sex-mad orange picker...
...when you boil down the whole Celtic mess, things come right down to Cowens; for as Cowens goes, so go the Celtics...
Instead of giving to people as Roosevelt did, Carter often must take away. Instead of building industrial capacity, Carter must frequently change its emphasis and clean up its mess. Instead of urging consumption, in some areas Carter must administer scarcity. These are negative chores...