Word: petitely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speed with natural grace. Its surface and shape defy the sense of touch, make it seem already in motion, and imply a nature which is orderly and self-coherent. It is like a goddess who brings the order of heaven down to earth--and prostitutes herself to every petit-bourgeois who can afford the monthly payments...
...Gatto. 18. Joe Don Looney. 19. One point. 20. 12 degrees. 21. Jim Marshall. 22. Jerry West. Oscar Robertson, Elgin Baylor, Bob Petit and Bill Russell, 23. Jerry West. Oscar Robertson, Elgie Baylor, Bill Russell and Dave De Bussehere. Each man named himself to the team. 24. Hot Rod Hundley, West Virginia. Fred Schaus. 25. The New York Knicqs. which selected Bill Bradley and Dave Stallworth, and the San Francisco Warriors which picked Walt Hazard and Rick Berry. 26. Darryl Imhoff. 27. Darryl Imhoff. 28. He competed only in basketball and not the high jump. 29. The Boston Celtics...
...same time, the regime has been pressing an anti-Western campaign on various levels-some frivolous. Peyton Place, charged with having a "petit bourgeois consumer mentality," will wink off Belgrade TV screens next month. The movie Patton was abruptly banished from Belgrade theaters last week for "glorifying the U.S. army of aggression." Yugoslav youths who used to wear G.I. fatigues and U.S. Army insignia are now being urged to switch to "the Partisan look" -belted tunics styled after the uniforms worn by Tito's World War II guerrillas...
...Philippe keep his original surname. "How," he asks, "will he be able to answer the teasers who say he is not his father's son because of a different name?" Similarly Paulette stalwartly refuses to give up her married name; she loves to call Gérard "mon petit Trognon" at intimate moments. The couple has received letters of support from some 30 other Trognons throughout France in the past two weeks. France-Soir, the nation's largest daily, condemned the court decision as "inconceivable." Le Monde sagely reminded the judges that once upon a time schoolboys...
...children's story; a slim, airy volume decorated with whimsical sketches of a multi-colored taxi standing under childishly drawn trees. But there was no innocence in Leduc's life, and there is none in her art. The Taxi is a story of children, but it is no Petit Prince. Leduc's children are beyond their years in sophistication, their age of innocence informed with a deep worldly wisdom. The brother and sister, fourteen and sixteen years old, who are the speakers in Leduc's dialogue, have reached a level of sensuality unusual in most adults, and act out their...