Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Quiz. In a statement, the White House pleaded with "the American people" to realize that the erasure did not prove that the lost conversation had contained any incriminating evidence. But that legally valid distinction defied logic and, perhaps more important to Nixon's survival as President, plain ordinary common sense. Only the White Queen in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, as conservative Columnist George F. Will observed, was capable of believing "six impossible things before breakfast...
...reggae singe on the up and up is bullied and beaten down by the local fat king of the record business; he falls for a sweet young thing, innocent ward of the neighborhood preacher, and then shows up the preacher's God-stricken ranting and moaning and raving as plain lechery. His ambition as a rock star thwarted, he joins the genga trade--shots of blitz-eyed traders wearing shades and a leopard skin vest he twirls two pistols in parody--the Western hero turned outcase. One the run, a hunted man, his record becomes a super hit; a doomed...
...matter of fact that happens in a lot of Alex Webb's photographs is a good model for what photography can do best. There is an outsider's distance, even arrogance, here that picks its images intelligently and admits the choosing straight-forwardly, just by seeming so plain...
...have been performed over the past 15 years by Dr. Georges Burou, who specializes in the male-to-female type. Most of his patients have usually lived as women long before they go to Casablanca to take what he calls "the last, irrevocable step." But, insists Dr. Burou, a plain-speaking Frenchman: "I don't change men into women. I transform male genitals into genitals that have a female aspect. All the rest is in the patient's mind...
...Japan and four out of every five rich prime-time TV commercials. Of its 5,000 or so competitors, the closest rival is the Hakuhodo agency, which has billings of less than $3,000,000. One reason for Dentsu's preeminence: because of its money, drive and just plain bigness, it can buy up prime print space and broadcast time months in advance, leaving only crumbs for its competitors...