Word: snugging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Something about the bottle, about the bright red cap snappy as a frontier bonnet, and the white cotton cloud showing through the translucent plastic, and the label, wide and snug, and the staunch lettering of EXTRA-STRENGTH, the whole shape of the thing comforting, like an old-fashioned milk bottle or a VW Beetle: it looks especially good in rows. Something about the rows, all the neat chunky boxes, one after the other, facing forward like a drill team on the shelf. Something about the shelf, third from the top, aisle B, toward the rear of the store, about which...
Social life includes some entertaining at home ("My wife is a good cook") and evenings out with friends in Boston, members of a literary set that includes Biographer Justin Kaplan and his wife, the novelist Anne Bernays. Throughout his career, Updike has chosen to live in snug corners, well away from the intrigues, gossip and power struggles that invariably ensue when the literati mingle...
...must take immediate action. Precious University resources are flowing from the endowment coffers for pom-poms and megaphones; pleated mini-skirts for the gals, and snug-your-bum slacks for the guys. Underprivileged students, meanwhile, yearn for larger scholarships; scientists of every stripe cut throats for research funds; and the window men at Lowell House have vowed not to remove their scaffolding until someone starts paying the bills down there. Can we afford cheerleaders in times of fiscal austerity...
...night resort hotels. Instead, they pay anywhere from $3,000 to $15,000 to buy rights to a week or perhaps as much as a month each year in a villa, bungalow or apartment. Typical of such deals is the package offered by the newly built Snug Harbor Marina Village in Fort Myers Beach, Fla. Snug Harbor charges a moderate $2,500 to $6,000 a week for two bedrooms and two baths, plus the use of a village-owned fleet of 22-ft. to 25-ft. cabin cruisers docked outside. About 100 miles to the north in Madeira Beach...
...torching his way through a couple of Arthur Alexander scorchers, Soldier of Love and A Shot of Rhythm and Blues; Paul lighting into That's All Right Mama and striking sparks off Carl Perkins' Matchbox. George gets to sing at least once on his own (a very snug version of Nothin' Shakin' but the Leaves on the Trees); and Ringo turns in an exuberant rough-house performance of I Want to Be Your Man. These songs all have the blind energy, nerve and joyful rowdiness of genius before history took over...