Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have seen a Negro woman sold upon the block at auction. I was walking. The woman on the block overtopped the crowd. I felt faint, seasick...The woman was a bright mulatto, with a pleasant face. She was magnificently gotten up in silks and satins. She seemed delighted with it all; sometimes ogling the bidders, sometimes looking quite coy and modest; but her mouth never relaxed from its expanded grin of excitement. I dare say the poor thing knew who would buy her. My very soul sickened. It was too dreadful. I tried to reason. 'You know how women sell...
...from Miss Fitler for her engagement ring. Despite the protests of her financial advisers, Wilson plans to make his fiancee a December bride, then leave for a three-month honeymoon cruise. "I think the age difference is unimportant," said Miss Fitler last week, adding, "it'll be pleasant and interesting to have a man around the house...
...result, the balance of the second act is upset. Anna, commandingly portrayed by Eden Lee Murray, dominates the action through most of the last half of the play, with too much ease. Murray is particularly effective in her adroit modulation between pregnant verbal aggression and ostensibly pleasant urbanity. But the thoroughness with which she overcomes Deeley's attacks leaves us unprepared for Kate's final rejection of Anna...
Juggernaut is one of those creations that manage to be pleasant even though they are filled with silly, shallow adventure-film conventions. These are just the conventions that Lester mocked with such glee and fierce precision in one of his best movies, How I Won the War, It is disconcerting to find him, at least temporarily, behind enemy lines...
...library, cluster near interstate exists--Hilton, Sheraton, Ramada, Howard Johnson, Travel Lodge, and Holiday Inn. As one leaves the throughway and approaches The Truman Library, Route 24 is lined with used car lots, supermarkets, gas stations, fast food stores, retail outlets, and light industry. The library and the pleasant municipal park across the highway make a striking contrast...