Word: pattered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trying to figure a means to make the money back. There is a final burst of sentimentality that manages to promise both happy futures and just deserts. It also reveals the sappy foundation beneath the movie's superficially tough exterior, like a stand-up comic who spikes his patter with a tear...
...concerns, Caldwell was operating on the premise that beneath the breast of the war horse beats the heart of a thoroughbred. The Barber ranks as a 19th century buffa masterpiece because its music is so innately ingratiating and so illustrative of both character and comic situation. Figaro's patter aria Largo al factotum ("Feeegaro! Feeegaro!") quickly defines him as one of the most likable hustlers in all opera. Rosina's Una voce poco fa is a song of such poise and bravura style as to remove all doubt that she will get her man, Count Almaviva...
...that the book's use of per capita income as an index of economic growth is questionable when applied to a nonindustrial society. Economic Historian Murray Rothbard said, "Cliometrics doesn't work for the current economy, so how could it work on information from 1860?" Sociologist Orlando Patter son questioned some of the inferences that Fogel and Engerman draw from their statistics, such as the assumption that young black girls were prudish, not promiscuous, because the average age of black slave women on having a first child...
...ever said that"), Senator Humphrey stepped into the spotlight before a packed audience of all ages at the Washington, D.C., armory. By longstanding tradition, the opening was billed as Congressional Night at the Circus. Seldom at a loss for words, Humphrey kept up an authentic ringmaster's patter for half an hour as North Dakota Senator Quentin Burdick and Alaska Senator Ted Stevens plus 14 Representatives dressed as clowns paraded around the ring on elephants before the regular show. Perhaps noting the lack of donkeys, Senator Henry Jackson was a no-show. Instead he went to Circus America...
...rapid-fire sequence of patter, Hero unwittingly rattles off 14 Dickens's titles during a spiel about his life...