Word: snug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...field day. How delicious is the deception of the rich! What a blow for aesthetic egalitarianism! And what a cast of characters! Front men for the operation were a pair of homosexuals named Fernand Legros and Réal Lessard. Legros, a French-Egyptian given to wearing snug suits lined in red silk, jetted around the world with his counterfeit wares while maintaining a lavish Paris apartment and an all-male harem. Legros's partner, Lessard, was a young Canadian with a handsome, honest face. On the road he was a cool con man too, but back home...
Frieda Arkin has found a real, snug little place for herself in northern New York State, name of Kuyper's Dorp. Halfway between the Adirondacks and the Catskills. Or-if you prefer to chart it on another map-halfway between the delicate perceptions of Our Town and the guff of Peyton Place...
...concrete and asphalt has become jaded, modern technology provides a variety of alternatives. First came the dune buggy, which can bounce merrily across rolling beaches. Then the snowmobile made its appearance, giving drivers breathtaking access to wintry fields and drifts. Now the all-terrain vehicle is here-a snug, rugged buggy that resembles a bathtub on wheels and can jounce, swim or crawl over just about any obstacle that nature has to offer...
CHARLESTON, S.C., is a city of antebellum mansions with brass knockers, walled gardens and wrought-iron gates. In spring, the stately peninsula city with its long sense of history is a snug, unharried haven for tourists. Charleston's generally docile Negroes and unpugnacious labor unions have blended well into the Old South texture. But this spring the blacks and the unions have both begun to change, and with them, Charleston...
...most astonishing things about the ceiling near at hand is the unfailing precision of its forms, both large and small. Michelangelo has caused each painted figure to exist in full, down to the subtlest wrinkle of a foot sole or the snug arc of a toenail. These refinements, needless to say, are quite invisible from down below. Why did the artist bother? In one of his sonnets, he exclaims, 'My soul can find no stair on which to climb to heaven, unless it be earth's loveliness...