Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Running hard and pounding the Eph do the Crimson evened the score at on a nice shot by leary. Another goal Harvard ahead for the first time at the half...
...somewhere in the staging the good lines, the nice phrases, and the archy's-eye point-of-view are lost. In book form, all archy's prose is in lower case (the cockroach typed out his copy by jumping onto the keys, but was not heavy enough to depress the shift lock). Unbroken by capital letters and sparsely punctuated, it reads like a kind of slow, dead-pan monotone and provides the perfect backdrop for the good phrase, the turned cliche, the well-dropped contradiction...
...great age ended in the drums of World War I. Otero, who had reigned in Paris for 25 years, finally retired to Nice in 1922 with a fortune estimated at $1,000,000, not counting her jewelry and chateaux. A movie about her life brought in more revenue. But the money gradually was lost at the casinos, and La Belle Otero grew old and wizened, reduced to living in a cramped room in the second-class Hotel Novelty. Mornings she marketed and fed the pigeons; on pleasant afternoons she strolled along the Promenade des Anglais. She said, "Women have...
...early Keystone Cops comedies, starred in the first of four film versions of Charley's Aunt in 1925, ended his movie career in 1939 after assisting his brother in The Great Dictator, spending his remaining years in Switzerland and France; of heart and other ailments; in Nice...
...NICE TRY by Thomas Baird. 280 pages. Harcourf, Brace & World...