Word: personal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better than Ayds' reducing plan ("Lose twenty pounds in three weeks and be a new person"); winning the Massachusetts lottery did not match...
...ONLY THING that scares a narrow-minded person more than a nihilist is an enthusiast. For, while it has become fashionable to precede many intellectual discussions with a credo of disbelief (in the name of scientific abstraction), the old saw against those who wish to "destroy without first building an alternative system" is a great weapon for the entrenched self-righteous. It is much harder, though, to fight positive enthusiasm. One can do little more than snarl, "naive and simplistic pseudo-philosophy" when confronted with, say, a new religious sect...
...person gets an ulcer here, it's because of his diet and drinking, not worry," says Ben Barry, 48, who has lived on Majuro since 1969. "This is an alcoholic's paradise. Where else can you get Black Label for 800 and listen to good jazz while you drink...
...silent men. In retaliation for his antigovernment editorials. Woods, 44, was "banned" for five years-which means that his movements were severely restricted, he was prohibited from returning to his job as editor of the East London Daily Dispatch and prevented from speaking with more than one person (except for family members) at a time. Government agents read his mail, bugged his home and phone, and kept him under general-if irregular -surveillance...
Heard on records, the Sex Pistols' music is primitive, purposely repetitive, less melodic than the American brand. In person the Pistols' antics add to the entertainment, if one enjoys a little gutter rebellion and a lot of depleted expectations. Rotten, Vicious, Jones and Drummer Paul Cook are only in their early 20s, but they have mastered the art of the 1950s pelvic thrust completely. Rotten is the live shell: an emaciated, electric figure who jumps from simian crouch to arm-swinging swirl to Groucho Marx prowl. Dissolving a coy smile into a demonic leer, he half snarls, half...