Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mental confusion by confiding that she "actually believed" technology would solve all the isolation and disillusionment that plague society, while she is stunningly ignorant of the fact that it is our dependence on science and invention rather than on rectitude and intellectual integrity that has contributed to our catastrophic slide into the sewer. MARIAN SCHEELE, Modesto, California...
This extreme awkwardness of construction makes Dreams, which belabors the smugness and provincialism of Danish society from feudal times to the present, seem far longer than it is. There are passages, not murky but mightily centrifugal, in which the reader's eyes slide off the page. And in something like equal number, or a bit more, there are set pieces, two or three or several dozen pages long, that are among the funniest satirical sketches seen in years...
...Once in a while a very, very good Dunster House person will be allowed to slide by," said house resident Sarah E. Tuttleton...
...find the fifth stairmaster! She complains of the somewhat dated weight machines in the stair-master room. Beware, dearie, lest you put on muscle in spite of your impeccable sense of exercise fashion and modernity. Though our thoroughly sanitized sports-writer-in-a-bubble has surely never let slide a drop of sweat (telling, isn't it?) and smells only of flowers, she begrudges her fellow athletes a real workout. She wishes fervently that all sweaters wipe every drop of their salt from the machines lest she contract it. If the large windows do not offer superb ventilation, they...
...There's a banality of disclosure that's occurred," he said. "Federal statutes have been loopholed to disutility. The ability of money to slide around obstructions in the law is like the ability of water to slide around obstructions like your roof...