Word: slant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mary Yuhfil, a respected Asian American journalist, was referred to as a "yellow cur" and a "slant-eyed bitch" by Jimmy Breslin, a colleague...
...jazz fan, the Society would have been unbearably boring were it not for the aural relief provided by the Modern Jazz Quartet. Or, considering the concert's stuffy slant, was it be the other way around? The difference was barely perceptible...
...along a track located on the deck, forward of the cockpit, without needing any special attention from captain or crew. Underneath it all is a 13,000-lb. winged keel, which can be moved by hydraulic power from a vertical down position to as much as a 25 degrees slant to either side. That and a two-ton water-ballast system greatly improve the vessel's stability...
...gift for regional American comedy. This sparkling collection reduces his scope without limiting his style. Dr. Ordinary is anything but: "He found God with no difficulty, but locating his belief another matter." Miss Resignation "liked football and was absolutely certain that she could have been an excellent off-tackle, slant-type runner . . . 44 was her number. Forty-four was her bra size, too. This had held her back in life, she felt." Occasionally the other characters in these fragments become a little too wacko, as if they were acting out for the onlookers. But Powell has a unique and vigorous...
There is nothing like a 140-m.p.h. wind to get a new slant on things. That, at least, is the premise of Josephine Humphreys' third novel, set in Charleston, S.C., and environs shortly after Hurricane Hugo whipped through in late September...