Word: path
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Danehy is a strange figure. He has spent the last decade being either extremely lucky or extremely careful when the political corruption spotlight has found Middlesex County in its path. He was not up for election during the Middlesex County "reform slate" of 1972, and stayed remarkably in the background of the late-summer hoopla surrounding fellow commissioner Mike McLaughlin and his alleged job-selling tactics. The job-selling probe, conducted in primary-timed fashion by District Attorney Droney's office, eventually cost McLaughlin a chance of winning the party nomination for Congress in the Sixth District...
...fitting reason for "despair." Nabokov conveys the idea that Herman's plump wife is having an affair with her puerile cousin without the narrator even being aware of it. And when Herman violently proclaims to have found his "perfect double," a tramp named Felix whom he encounters on a path (in a glass funhouse in a movie), we have our nagging doubts that what Herman tells us he sees really exists. In the film, however, there's never any question: the tramp looks very little like Herman. Fassbinder should have made us doubt, want to believe, almost...
...insurgents in Malaysia are ethnic Chinese, there is little evidence that they are acting under Peking's orders.) The Tokyo-Peking friendship treaty, signed last August to the dismay of Moscow, has been interpreted by Pravda as a diabolical device by China "to force Japan onto the path of its preparations for a third world war." Says the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya: "China is striving to subordinate the African states to its dictates," in hopes of using thinly populated areas of the continent to resettle its excess population...
...female, the two little beasts went at each, other like monsters in a Japanese sci-fi flick, pushing and shoving each other with their horns. If one beetle seemed to be getting the upper hand, the other often slumped on its side, blocking the first beetle's path. The more aggressive beetle would then use his horns as levers in an attempt to dislodge his opponent. Sometimes the defender flipped over on his back and locked horns directly with the aggressor. All the while, as the beetles lunged at each other, they made loud squeaking noises...
...ballads that Ross has to sing, on the other hand, have dull lines like "If you believe, within your heart you'll know/ That no one can change the path that you must go." Poor Lena Home, as Glinda, the Good Witch of the South, has to suck this same lyrical lemon when, wearing a gruesome blue good-fairy gown, she floats in a starry, process-shot sky. A huge budget corrupts hugely. By this time the viewer has realized that he can't win, he can't break even, and he must...