Word: saying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orange juice. Or the incessant sunshine. Or the surfing and the skiing. But there is something transporting about a California Girl; the legs are longer, the eyes clearer, the skin more exuberant. Maybe an out-of-towner can become a California Girl if she comes here early?say at about age three. After that, it's too late. She can be beautiful. And healthy. And sexy. But she can never quite be that combination of maximum looks and minimum restraint, that tranquil body and restive psyche that is the California Girl! As difficult as it is to be a California...
...turns out to be the extreme in the antismog movement. "The smog here is very bad," she tells me. "I've been fighting it for twelve years. I have to put cream in my nasal passages, but sometimes my nose swells up anyway, and I chew gum. They say that helps. And I have to keep washing out my eyes. You know, they say that smog can affect your mental outlook, damage the brain...
...cosmetics above and the San Andreas fault below, there is a kinetic energy and what can only be described as a sense of angry optimism. Earthquakes and the smog will not destroy California; perhaps the only thing that could is stasis?and no one has ever been able to say that California is standing still...
...pattern repeats itself when such children grow up and have children of their own. Overdisciplined and deprived of parental love in their infancy, they look to their own children for what they missed. "Axiomatic to the child beater," say Pollock and Steele, "are that infants and children exist primarily to satisfy parental needs, that children's and infants' needs are unimportant and should be disregarded, and that children who do not fulfill these requirements deserve punishment...
...field with a banged-up knee. His replacement was Roman Gabriel, then in his fourth year of spotty, second-string duty. The plays were sent in by the coach and "the boys didn't think too much of me in the huddle," Gabriel recalls. "I can't say that I blamed them. I had no idea how to read a defense." He soon became a speed reader. In the season's remaining month, Gabriel threw nine touchdown passes to account for three of the year's four victories...