Word: rottenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment, Talbot considers abandoning his extensively planned future: his post in the service of the British governor of Australia, which will in time bring him back to England, election to Parliament from his godfather's "rotten borough" and prospective glories beyond. And to throw all that away, he reminds himself, for a "parson's penniless daughter!" But the Alcyone is gone the next morning, and Marion with her. Talbot wakes up, hung over yet drunk with infatuation, to face the alarming likelihood that the ship carrying him toward his appointed destination will sink...
...worked for SASC. They think reactionaries like Duke Kent-Brown or conservatives like Caspar Weinberger '38 are bad people. By constantly threatening these speakers with blockades and rotten tomatoes, SASC has convinced Spence that such speakers should only appear "once a week" at most...
...shopping in the comfort of my own home. Not from the Home Shopping Club, as a matter of protest, but from catalogs. The Star Market catalog is particularly good. It lets me do all my grocery shopping over the phone. Most of the food is rotten by the time it gets to my house, but they have a great deal on Windex...
...FILMING this blind date gone rotten, Blake Edwards leaves no nightmares undreamt. Houses that have always stood in one place are suddenly carried away and beds that have always been sturdy cave in. Following the dinner fiasco, the rest of the night is spent in a California-freeway car chase with Nadia's homicidal ex-boyfriend David (John Larroquette), who also happens to be a trial lawyer...
...time is good to ask younger writers for whom that period is either a golden or rotten age [what effect the Black poetry of the 1960s had on their work]," Chairman of the Afro-American Department Werner Sollors said yesterday...