Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defended, but premarital sex was tolerated, and no stigma was attached to illegitimacy. Except when marriages were broken by the sale of one spouse, the clear tendency was for stable, long-lasting slave marriages. In some cases, marriages even survived successful escapes by one spouse. Gutman quotes a Natchez, Miss., slave overseer who said that slaves who outran the owners' dogs would usually stay in the vicinity and risk recapture to see their families again...
Thursday, November 25: I know Beverly High is playing Salem, but don't you get out of that bed till at least 12:00. That way you miss out on all those picky Thanksgiving chores, like running to the corner store for nutmeg...
...Saturday matinee seems like the most important concert to miss. It stars Buddy Rich and his Killer Force (ugh), Tad Jones, Mel Lewis Orchestra (getting old but still top-notch) and the Herb Pomeroy Orchestra, which sounds like a pretty much unknown quantity...
...Donnell forces strong themes in and out of his work: faith and delusion, guilt and innocence, words and meaning. His characters miss being drawn to proper proportions--they are unevenly constructed, sometimes deep and sometimes shallow to the point of being like the cartoons Tyler complains he comes out with. Especially fuzzy is his ill-defined creation of Missy, a thin, shadowy portrait of a girl...
...these hung-up aristocrats fled to the cities and found the streets lined with mattresses. Polish director Walerian Borowczyk's film leers away at one of them, the young Ewa, as the world of decadent prewar Europe opens her eyes. Story of Sin tells the tale of a Victorian miss gone va-va-va-voom...