Word: punic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corrupt Police Captain McCluskey. Michael's final assignment is to arrange the escape of a Sicilian outlaw who has become an endangered folk hero. This proves difficult. The godfather-in-training is given the runaround and a chance to witness treacheries that seem to have originated in the Punic Wars...
...amateur tradition, under-the-table paychecks date back to the Punic Wars at least. Still, considering the regimen of exercise and travel in light of the pay scale in popular professional games, the people who test man's physical limitations qualify as idealists, even dreamers. And it is not too hard to believe Olson when he lists the rewards as "very little money, a certain amount of glory, mostly the sensation of the jumping itself, the feeling of it, the rush it gives you that's like nothing else. Then, the competition. If nothing came...
...take away our books. There, on that wall, Ahab storms. Hamlet mulls. Molly Bloom says yes yes yes. Keats looks into Chapman, who looks at Homer, who looks at Keats. All this happens on a bookshelf continually-while you are out walking the dog, or pouting or asleep. The Punic Wars rage; Emma Bovary pines; Bacon exhorts others to behave the way he never could. Here French is spoken. There Freud. So go war and peace, pride and prejudice, decline and fall, perpetually in motions as sweeping as Milton's or as slight as Emily Dickinson considering the grass...