Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflation 100, Strauss 0.' For an old pol like Strauss, who used to grab arms and twist them, trying to track down something like inflation is infuriating. "It's a lot of ghosts," he said. "It's like fog I like to be able to shake something, to hit it, to denounce somebody...
...question is asked by the novel's vibrant, sorrowful hero. Benoit Kaufman, a Romany who survives the concentration camps as a boy to become a successful protraitist of the rich and famous. Yet, unable to shake his past. Ben finally dedicates himself to avenge all those men, women, and children who were shot, gassed and incinerated. The specific object of his wrath is a fellow gypsy, a former Nazi collaborator who saved his own life by participating in the slaughter of others...
...dawning understanding that the majorities that make up that guiding force are not comprised solely of members responding to special interests. Neither is it a conservative coalition. To the chagrin of anti-nuke activists, not even the breeder and its hated plutonium--much less the conventional, safer reactors--can shake up the moderates who control Congress. "We are not going to, pell-mell, rush into a 'breeder age' or 'plutonium economy' or anything else," argued classic middle-of-the-roader, Rep. John Anderson (D-Ill.) recently in an attempt to discredit the catch-phrases used against Clinch River development. Anderson...
...Shake and bake...
...really becomes involved. One is never truly worried about Erica--she is strong and capable of laughing at herself, even at the most painful of moments. Her relationships with people are all loving and we know that she is bound to pull through. It is satisfying but does not shake us on a deeper level. One comes out of the theatre content but without new perspective. And it is not likely to bring encouragement to divorced women who are trying to make it on their own, unless of course, they happen to be beautiful, chic New Yorkers launching on serious...