Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neck" would become absurd, since we possessed no such thing. Besides, it is only because we have necks, and because our existence is inconceivable without them, that we may permit ourselves to name the husk of the oboe its neck. Of course, I am aware just now that the phrase "tubular shape" has been replaced by the single word "husk." Why have I done this? Was it because I failed to keep in mind the original term for that elongated form which suggests to us the oboe? Was it because I found the expression "tubular shape" both cumbersome and pompous...
Such is life in Madagascar, the world's fourth largest island, where the phrase "Nothing ever happens around here" is not a complaint but an expression of supreme satisfaction. A French version of Shangrila, Madagascar was a French colony for 73 years, and the 40,000 Frenchmen who remain have seen to it that French food, fashions and pharmacies are almost everywhere. For all that, no one would mistake Madagascar for France. Director of Information Flavien Renaivo describes it as "L'lle-au-Bout-du-Monde" (The Island at the End of the World). Though it lies...
...blissfully in heat, and one leaves his house to take a walk, and suddenly 47 assorted dogs, wild with lust, begin making messy love to your calf muscles. It is true, as they say in Dorchester, that "It's not the face you fuck," but the coiner of the phrase never took into account that bitch musk clings to one's clothes, and that male hounds are so blindly in love that they mistake corduroy for canine flesh...
...believed, had joined them to the enemies of the Revolution, and it must have seemed that to say aloud that their intention was not that at all, would be an attempt to deny their guilt. And who, after all, would care if their revolutionary honor, in Merleau-Ponty's phrase, was preserved? Bukharin, in prison waiting to be executed, fell silent...
...apartment were sealed off by the Communist-run security police, led by Interior Minister Václav Nosek. Within months, at least 25 people who knew something, or were believed to know something, were locked up. Of these, 14 were executed, murdered, committed suicide or, as the phrase went, "died in prison...