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...Queen of Hearts' exclamation in Alice in Wonderland: "Sentence first-verdict afterwards"-proclaims, "We have arranged [the hanging] for 12 o'clock. Nothing remains to be done except to try him." At one point Shaw has him say, "You insolent-," breaking off after the adjective. Here Maher provides the noun "bastard"-which Shaw likely had in mind but could not have got by the stage censor...
...While noun of the Crimson threesome has been particularly outstanding of late. Faller has had his best practices of the year this week, and Lee thinks than any one of them could surprise the field...
...incident took place last month after Patrick Eady, 32, a social-studies teacher at Lamphere, invited two college-age youths who are mem bers of a local left-wing group called the White Panthers to address his students. Their talk was freely sprinkled with the provocative verb (or noun, or adjective, depending on how it is used...
MAGAZINES First Person Singular Many editors have lately decided that magazine prose is too impersonal - that in a rather impersonal world, readers yearn for human voices and the pro noun "I." The result is a revival of personal journalism, typified in the current issues of Harper's and the Atlantic, each of which is almost entirely devoted to the work of one writer...
...full of crap as I am." When hecklers mustered the temerity to shout "Publicity hound!" at him, Mailer managed to pronounce flawlessly his all-purpose noun, verb and expletive...