Word: nods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When a Nobel Prize winner makes a statement about matter, we can all nod our heads and say. 'Yes--that's true,'" says MacCaffrey. "I think a lot of historians would like to have that kind of effect. The rise of computers was a gift to people with this kind of interest...
...colleague in the German writers' impromptu workshop Group 47, Lind has evolved less an answer to lunacy than a technique for exposing it. In every work he manages to reduce history to a wild nightmare from which one wakes up laughing. In his latest novel, with a nod to Jonathan Swift, grand master of the savage laugh and the surreal voyage, Lind sets sail on one of his most inspired trips...
...skirt with red and yellow flowers, a feathered boa and a floppy feathered hat. Only the third First Lady to tread the Gridiron boards, but the very first to sing-Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter in years past had danced a few steps-Nancy gave the bandleader a confident nod, then in a clear and courageous voice delivered her own secondhand prose, written for the occasion by Sheila Tate, her press secretary, and White House Speechwriter Landon Parvin: "Even though they tell me that I'm no longer Queen/ Did Ronnie have to buy me that new sewing machine...
Nahigian needs no magic to find his starter, Junior Greg Brown gets the nod on the mound, and Nahigian says, "should go five or six innings depending on the weather...
...avant-garde assumption was hardening into orthodoxy, and somehow he never got the message. He went on with his work under the illusion that authors were still required to prove themselves to their audiences, and not the reverse. He told stories as if daring any of his listeners to nod off or leave the room. "It happened like this," he would begin urgently. When he sensed impending restlessness, he would insert a "To make a long story short" and pick up the pace, He practiced this old-fashioned bardic art for so long that it began to look brand...