Word: neat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took our seats inside the hall. Three older men with short, neat hair sat in front of us. They smiled and eyed the crowd and joked with each other as though it were 1937. A handful of young kids leaned out over the balcony's ornate railing. A woman in her late twenties sat behind us with her date, making conversation about theater, art and life. A row of college students in blue jeans sat in the back, while those in tuxedos and evening gowns took the front seats. An old couple sat erect in the balcony, watching the empty...
...cost-free as some editors argue: foreign political leaders often deplore and consider harmful the sievelike nature of the American Government and the blabbiness of the American press. The gain is in a public informed, in time to redress wrongs. Advantage and disadvantage are not always in neat balance. Where in other societies only authority prevails, here what is not authority's domain is left to conscience. The heartening fact, to judge by the record, is that the graver the issue, the more the editor hears from his conscience...
...four in the big five) the pictorials are not filled with feather-bedecked women waiting in expensively decorated apartments for well-dressed, well-tanned young men. Hustler accepts no liquor or cigarette advertising, the mainstays of men's magazines. Whether this is done for moral reasons or as a neat stratagem for future court cases is impossible to say, but the absence of Winston and Salem men fits the editorial policy well. Each month Hustler turns over its lucrative back cover to a public service announcement; when asked how this is possible, Flynt just says, "as for advertisers, Hustler doesn...
...Every crime is a masterpiece," Grover Bagby tells Chaucer when that poor butler is in jail. With its neat plot, irrepressible music, and at times brilliant lyrics, Softly Stealing is not quite a masterpiece. But at times this original crime story seems to come very, very close...
Glashow's memories of school are somewhat less sublime. "For 'physics' we had a choice between automotive and electrical engineering...My teacher was 'Mad-Dog' Tyson, who had a mania for keeping students quiet in the halls. He was also preoccupied with neat notebooks...