Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That in order to secure her release Peter and John then set but to blackmail a cop who is dealing the confiscated dope on the sly? That complications follow--from the introduction of heroin to a mock-up of the South Station to a climactic shoot-out at Walden Pond between the cops and the Mafia? That Peter and Susan survive it all to ride off into the sunset...
...should the reader of this book. Only Amis' talent as a storyteller and stylist keeps Girl, 20 from settling into the pettiest smugness. But then, an Amis novel has always been like a naughty jaunt on a thinly iced pond. Too much moral or critical weight concentrated in any one place means breaking through to the shallows beneath the surface...
Charles U. Daly's bid for the presidency is cut short, despite his strong showing in the New Hampshire primary, when he accidentally drives his Mercedes into Muddy Pond with two Grays Hall secretaries in the back seat. The Democratic National Committee awards him its consolation prize of "Mr. Congeniality" and he resigns from Harvard to run a late-night talk show...
...Alfred Schaefer, of the Union Bank of Switzerland, echoed that emphasis: "The U.S. has thrown a stone in the pond of international trade and financial relations. But all of us cannot just lie back and watch what has happened. We have to work together quite fast. If we do not, the waves provoked by the stone could be quite dangerous for the world's economic and financial structures...
About 12 persons, including Blustein, followed Kennedy for about 10 minutes last May 26, chanting "Murderer" and shouting at him through a bullhorn. This occurred after an SDS demonstration protesting the University's inaction following the drowning of two children in Harvard-owned "Muddy Pond" in Jamaica Plain...