Word: snugging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soup survived, and thieving camel drivers overcome are what a proper travel book requires. The author labors at gaudy landscapes because they make good backdrops for sketches of himself in jaunty poses; the reader tolerates this hamminess because tales of bandits and dysentery make him feel snug in his armchair. Writing such stuff is an honest dodge, and in recent years no one has dodged more expertly than Paul Theroux in The Great Railway Bazaar (Europe and Asia) and The Old Patagonian Express (North and South America...
...them, Cicero is snug, not bigoted They say that the prices of their brick bungalows will fall if a black family moves near by. "What people fear here is not skin color," says Real Estate Salesman Eugene Bielawa, "but devaluation of what they've worked all their lives fora nice home." Restaurateur Christos Rozos, who came from Greece in 1962 is wary of black Americans. "Why do they want to move here?" he wonders. "We've spent a lot of money to make this street beautiful...
...neat and snug. Behind the chair's back leg on your right is a cable wrapped in gray tape. It will sluice the electrical current to three other wires: two going to each of your feet, and the third to the cone on top of your head. The room is very quiet. During your brief walk here, you looked over your shoulder and saw early morning light creeping over the Berkshire Hills. Then into this silent tomb...
...cast of congenial nutball characters, takes place in a Boston bar owned by an ex-baseball player. This particular piece of sitcom real estate was developed by three Taxi production veterans, Glen and Les Charles and James Burrows, and their saloon seems like a nice place to settle in, snug and warm and safe. Too safe, perhaps...
...celebrity endorser had seemed snug in his position, it was oracular, orotund Orson Welles, 66, who boasted that Paul Masson Vineyards let nothing go "before its tune." But the winemaker let Welles go, and has now replaced him as spokesman with that quintessential enunciator Sir John Gielgud, 78, whose first two ads put him in an art gallery and amid a forest of pro football players. Gielgud, who has been cashing in just a teensy bit on his posi-Arthur cachet, would seem more at home with a Mouton-Rothschild than a Masson party jug. But the vint ner insists...