Word: oft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maintain that it is the tall man who is a victim of discrimination [Oct. 4]. Standing 6 ft. 3¼ in. tall, I shudder whenever I enter a clothing store and the oft repeated apology rings in my ears: "Sorry, but you tall guys are less than 10% of the customers, so there's no profit in stocking up on long sizes...
...would be poppycock for anyone to attempt to explain away the convicts' actions with the oft-heard clichés that, after all, they were 1) innocent "victims of our harsh society," 2) in prison "only because they were black," or 3) "political prisoners." Governor Rockefeller did exactly the right thing. And now let's not have the courts get lenient with these murderous convicts...
Yeats' oft-quoted couplet sums up the ideal of ballet-the ideal so rarely achieved. And no wonder. Classical dance is at once the most sensuous and the most abstract of the theatrical arts. Its essence is the interaction of music with the movement of male and female bodies-the erotic impulse styled and formalized by discipline and grace and shaped to a unified whole...
...oft-quoted sentiment, Bergman stated that he wished to work unknown, for a common ideal, as did the artisans of the cathedral at Chartres. In Persona he is faced by the self-defeat of such a hope in a world swayed by countervailing tensions each of which claims ascendance and leaves little solace or purpose to the individual. Bergman's actress-heroine is not able to portray the theatrical tragedy of Electra while horrifying war is waged in a country far distant from neutralist Sweden. Alma turns on her TV set, and the immolation of a Buddhist monk produces...
...Buster Brown hats and patent shoes may have given her, Tricia is a cool, self-possessed woman with a porcelain near beauty and a talent for conservative mots. Some detect in her a steely if youthful combination of the manner of Grace Kelly and the views, not so oft expressed, of Martha Mitchell. And, of course, a psychogenetic blend of Pat and Richard Nixon...