Word: pleasanter
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...unique notoriety. His corrosive comedy routines, and the occasionally raw language he used to make his satirical points, landed him in the docket on obscenity charges in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco. "Factually, the show is indecent," he acknowledged. "The areas that I discuss are not pleasant. However, I do think they have the freight of substance." Dirty words or no, Lenny's real crime was criticizing organized religion in cities where many of the police, prosecutors and judges were conservative Catholics. Cops threatened nightclub owners who booked Lenny. Two owners had their liquor licenses suspended. Another...
...boss got more and more frantic, I was more and more insistent on reaching Alan. When I was walking back up the narrow revolving stairwell to the production office, I realized that my phone was ringing, but I was too late answering. Instead, I was greeted by a pleasant voicemail with two names and phone numbers that could probably help solve the problem. I always meant to call him back. I never heard the fire speech—Alan’s famous safety talk, which he repeated before every show in the Agassiz Theatre. I never had a chance...
...associated with summer, is a bit less intense, a bit more jovial, and a great deal more fun than its spring, fall, or winter distillations. The boathouse is warmer, the sun brighter, and the river livelier than during the academic year. And they all make the sport much more pleasant...
...come together around a single book the way they did in the 20th century, when Holden Caulfield went looking for the ducks in Central Park. Those birds have flown. It's hard not to miss that old sense of unanimity. Even if it was a fiction, it was a pleasant, comforting...
...There was the kind of competition that was less pleasant, that was more murderous, but it didn’t get in the way,” he says...