Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also shows positive signs. He allows his publications a certain freedom--Alexander Cockburn, the media critic for Murdoch's Village Voice, often directs his jibes at Murdoch's Post. Moreover, perhaps due to Murdoch's concern with success, he does not level all his publications to the same bleak plain. If the New York Post often runs trash, then New York offers "classy trash"--to use writer Richard Reeve's description of the magazine's content. Yet Reeves offered that appraisal before Murdoch owned New York. And only a cursory examination of recent New York stories reveals that "classy trash...
Paolillo, however, did not allow the company to hire off-duty Cambridge policemen to patrol the area in plain clothes. He said the company subsequently hired agents from two private Boston detective firms...
Prestige attached to garages re mains unsettled, but the family car had better not be a Mercedes, Rolls or Cadillac. Fussell assures us that the best upper-middles drive plain American models that are permanently dulled by a barely perceptible layer of dirt. Jeeps, he says, suggest that one of your residences is in a place so unpublic that the roads to it are not even paved, "indeed are hardly passable by your ordinary vulgar automobile...
...number of justifications. I think that everybody scoffed at the idea that the medical students were in danger. But they did feel in considerable danger. Three students came back saying things like. "It wasn't an invasion. It was a rescue. "That's one justification. I think it's plain that most students felt themselves under serious threat. There was a 24-hour curfew, orders to shoot to kill, a government that just murdered a number of people in cold blood, they felt that that was enough of a justification. I think another justification is that it does seem...
...deference to those who don't make breakfast, Dunster is the only House to offer omelettes as a late night snack. These sell from $1 to 1.50, depending on contents ranging from plain cheese to "western"-bacon, cheese and tomato...