Word: screwing
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Swaying back and forth on the piano bench, Leon unconsciously accompanies the rhythm of his speech with the rhythm of his body. He flips his tap shoe lightly over and tightens a screw in the metal heel with a flick of a screwdriver...
...silver-haired six-footer with a deeply seamed face, Fraser, 62, retains the liberal's faith in the American people, but is vocal about his disenchantment with the nation's leadership. Says he: "The auto workers have a feeling that Government could screw up a two-car funeral. What you've got in the House of Representatives is 435 baronies-with a few exceptions -and it is almost as bad in the Senate...
...papers to avoid using the word altogether was the ever circumspect New York Times, which last made censorship history by excising the word screw from a story about Carter's 1976 Playboy interview ("a vulgarism for sexual relations," substituted the Times). This time the paper buried the quote on page 26 and left a dash where the word ass should have been. "If the Times gives up its ass, it will have to be for a better story than this," chuckled Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal. "I just think it was more fun not to use it when everybody else...
...bulb looks like a double-dip ice cream cone, and the lower part is filled with electronic components; it will screw into standard sockets and will have two settings, a low of 75 watts and a high of 150 watts. The bulb will go on sale in 1981, which will give customers time to save up for it. Price: $10, vs. $1.50 for a conventional three-way bulb. Over its 5,000-hr. life, the company says, each Halarc could save $20 in electricity costs...
Twenty years and 15 novels later, Muriel Spark is as tricky as ever. At first appearance,her cool, elegant prose and witty characters seem comfortable within the traditional British comedy of manners. But with a twist of plot here and a turn of the psychological screw there, Spark sends her comedies careening off in deadlier directions. Wit becomes malice. Tea and crumpets mask terror and corruption. Ordinary lives turn bizarre and mysterious...