Word: piers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should have been smart enough to have them treat you to a meal at a good restaurant last night. So too, tonight. Have a reunion dinner with the 1600 freshmen and their parents at Locke-Ober's tonight; last night you saw them all at Anthony's Pier 4. Today at lunch is the time to inform your parents that their deadline for departure is right after dinner--otherwise, you'll lose 0.1 on your GPA, as you were told by some high authority. That way, you've played them for another fancy meal, and once they leave...
There was, of course, exuberance aplenty. Flags were flying and horns blasting as 1,000 vessels?tugs and schooners, runabouts and yachts, skiffs and even a Chinese junk?jammed Norfolk harbor. Pier 12 was packed tight as an estimated 15,000 friends and relatives shouted, waved their hands and flourished banners. Proclaimed one: WELCOME BACK TO THE KNOWN WORLD. Another: HEY! BIG DADDY. A smiling woman sported a T shirt emblazoned: WELCOME HOME STEVE...
Still they keep coming. Standing in a long line on the sun-baked cement pier of the old submarine base at Key West, the Cubans look dazed, frightened, seasick, hungry...
...Unknown Orwell). Blair was feeling his way as a minor novelist, self-absorbed and "unremittingly nonpolitical." By the time Eric fully became George, he was passionately political in every line. The transformation was triggered by the poverty, unemployment and neglect he saw while researching The Road to Wigan Pier (1937). Then the Spanish Civil War confirmed his vision of a new socialist order-and gave him an education in the treachery of internecine politics. In between these experiences, he married his first wife, a bright, game girl named Eileen O'Shaughnessy. One of the delights of this sensitive, intelligent...
...various Village Voice articles on the leather bars, Bell has made the point that many homosexuals, far from being pussycats, seem to crave danger along with their sex. For example, one of the most popular trysting spots for New York gays in the mid-'70s was a rotting pier in Greenwich Village, where homosexuals regularly risked mugging, fire, police raids and the possibility of falling into the Hudson River through holes in the pier. Why? One theory is that oppression by the straight world has taught many gays to connect sex with guilt, shame and danger. John Devere, editor...