Word: passes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every year the Outing Club returns with the same losing entry. They succeed in distinguishing themselves both as cowards, protecting their delicate complexions behind raincoats and riot helmets, and as dullards, foolishly believing they can pass off their Grumman canoes as hand-made. To these paragons of ignorance we can only say, stay indoors, it may rain...
...city of foghorns and Jack Kerouac, and Tripmaster Monkey maps the crossroads of countries and characters. The Chinese-Americans of her earlier works, the Mexican-Americans of California fame, the mainstream Americans of boring jobs and boring attitudes, the blond-haired beauties and the bearded draft dodgers--all types pass through Kingston's city...
...name is warped, so is his personality. He is an American, fifth generation, a Berkeley graduate. But he is not an American because of his heritage. Because he is always marked as an Asian, he cannot pass himself off as a Beatnik, despite long hair, a beard and mismatched clothes...
...Bernard remembers. This was no home- kitchen production with towels stuffed under the door to contain the pungent odor of the process. This was a major manufacturing operation disguised as a beach party, using black-market chemicals to produce 100 lbs. of crank, presold to a buyer in Grants Pass, Ore., for $15,000 a lb. Almost a million net, even before the powder hit the streets, sold by the gram for nearly the same price as cocaine. A lesser cook chortles, "Those people in Oregon are taking everything we can make, and they pay a premium." Adds Big John...
Whatever his critics may think, Welsh's publications, like all other children's magazines, have to pass a dual test to succeed. They must appeal first to kids and then to parents, grandparents and schoolteachers, who write the checks for subscriptions...