Word: pies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After graduation from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied English, Smith became "the worst correspondent the A.P. ever had. Every time someone held up a pie-shaped chart of the state budget I fell asleep." For the next 15 years, he made his living by writing some 30 inconsequential novels and innumerable short stories under a variety of aliases, including Simon Quinn, Jake Logan and Nick Carter. None bore much resemblance to their originator, an intense longdistance runner whose coloring and physiognomy "display a classic mix of genes -my mother is mostly Pueblo Indian and my father is straight...
...curiosity, for the piano can hardly compensate in either weight of tone or sustaining power for the missing quartet of strings. Jon Deak's Sinister Tremors (1977), for clarinet, percussion and tape, is more theatrical than Speculum's customary fare; at one point, a table containing pie tins, boards, broken glass and other objects is knocked over, simulating an avalanche...
...labor force. The congress did not really come to grips with any of the basic problems " says an analyst in Moscow. "The consumer was shown a future that is implicitly dismal. There is no sign of reapportioning resources, no adjustment in who gets a larger slice of the pie. There is no clue about how, specifically, they will deal with the shortage of labor and the need for higher productivity...
...time you stumble back--eight days, 70 verses of "American Pie," 642 beers and one homecoming stop at Buzzy's later--every cell of your being will be satiated with sun, sand, alcohol and the smell of your fellow sun lovers crammed into that Duster for all those hours. But it will have been worth it--the tan alone would be enough; the frisbee games, margaritas and girl you met in Daytona are extra cheese in the taco...
...withdrawn anytime soon. But he denied any Soviet designs on the Persian Gulf and proposed that the "military threat" to the region be removed by international agreement. U.S. policymakers were unimpressed. "It's a stale reiteration of their desire to get a finger in the Persian Gulf pie," said an intelligence analyst in Washington...