Word: needlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...malt shop after she has managed to tint her hair pink in beauty school. Having left Rydell High to learn how to shampoo and rinse, Frenchy is having one of those adolescent crises as to whether or not she has made the right decision by leaving school. Needless to say, her problem is hardly assuaged by a host of women with silver hair curlers and Frankie Avalon making his guest appearance as Teen Angel. Avalon tells Frenchy that she's "got the dream but not the drive. Who would want their hair done by a slob, only whores." Not only...
During the summers when he was not playing golf, Paxton worked as a reporter for the Paducah Sun Democrat, the only daily in Paducah, and as a commercial writer for television station WPSD. Paxton's father is President of Paducah Newspaper Inc. which owns both enterprises. This is, needless to say, a boon for his son, who can take off from work early every day to head out for the golf course...
Despite what was undeniably a disappointing senior year for Curry, there can be no doubt about his genuine all-around athletic talent, or for that matter, ability to play pro football. Needless to say, a lot of ballplayers have been drafted and hung around in the pros who weren't half the athlete that Curry...
Timmy Clifford and Ron Stewart combined for the triumph in the nightcap, a game which was mercifully called after five innings with Harvard on top by at least 10-0 score. Clifford threw hard, and apparently his sprained ankle is fully healed, which needless to say is good news for the Crimson. Clifford posted a 4-0 log from the mound last year...
...Needless to say, Castle's decision tugs at our sympathy, and several reviewers have speculated that Greene means through this novel to justify in a roundabout way the defection in the '60s of his good friend, Kim Philby. But if we take Castle's side, it is largely because the British superiors he defies in the book come off as such cardboard villains. "Uncle Remus," conceivable even now, is done here too baldly to be believed. It is also a bit much that the heads of British intelligence meet over lunch and after shooting parties, to discuss plans for liquidation...