Word: messing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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READERS TAKE A gleeful interest in the mess most writers make of their private lives, and a full documentation of financial irresponsibility, alcoholism, sexual peculiarity and general bitchiness seems the current prerequisite to the final acceptance of a modern master. This assures readers that the every worst about an author is already known and published, and that even if they can't write like Virginia Woolf at least they can enjoy sex. Undergoing this treatment at the moment are Malcolm Lowry, George Orwell, W.H. Auden, and, of course, Virginia Woolf. Occasionally a writer's private life is so juicy that...
...deep-down servility." Adrian disappointed her in love, while she had, knowing better, placed a magical efficacy in the word. She hightails it back to monogamy and files him away in her note-book, readying herself for work once again. And here's the key. Having made a mess of her life, only through her work can she piece it back together...
...were not content to act as a mere umpire and keeper of the peace in the courtroom, but your conduct more than any other factor led to what appears to be a searching and conscientious inquiry to determine the truth about and ultimate responsibility for this sordid mess. This once again illustrates, for all to see, the fact that an independent judiciary is essential to the well-being of this nation, and it demonstrates also what one man can do if he has good motives and a strong determination...
...suggest a design for the bicentennial memorial coin? It would be intended to remind us, once we emerge from the energy crisis-a few years from now-not to get ourselves in the same kind of mess again...
...unity at all to 'the production--the tenuous Watergate connection, for example, is milked for all it's worth so that everything's thrown in. Sometimes the scatter-shot technique worked--there was a sense of absurdity and a liberal sprinkling of slapstick that occasionally legitimized the mess. Some of the music--especially when the score departed from the safe, cliched, quasi-forties style--like Laura Shapiro's mediocre "Onion," was completely out of context. The song could have been in any show, and should have been in none...