Word: snugly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall comes with the last pages bound by a yellow paper band, slim but snug, that boasts that anyone who "can resist the startling ending" should return the book to the publishers, band still intact, for full reimbursement. Such a stunt may deflect attention from a contrived Freudian somersault about an attorney whose sordid sexual history makes a formidably damaging brief in his own nightmarish, fantasy trial for murder...
...Send 'em a Message" runs one of the big slogans--a message mainly about two symbolic issues: "the busin'" and "the welfare." Government has withdrawn to the snug offices of a distant Washington bureaucracy which subjugates practical men to the dictates of "pointy-heads." They are destroying our schools for the sake of the minorities, they are taking our money and giving it away...
...burner I, but my attitudes have most assuredly changed in recent years. I got my comeuppance four years ago when the Viet Nam War intruded into my snug little bridge-club and bowling-league world, and my eldest child, then 21, was killed. After six months of weeping and working myself into a psychoneurotic state, I asked myself, "What the hell are you doing to yourself and your other four kids?" So at 46 I enrolled myself in college and am pursuing a career that I always wanted to try. And the kids haven't suffered a bit. They...
...below swirl the icy black currents of the rushing St. Lawrence River. Snow-laden Arctic winds whistle past, and for an instant, at least, the feeling is that of being atop a giant, jagged iceberg floating downriver past Montreal. Inside the iceberg, though, all is snug and warm; a baroque symphony dances across the huge living room while the champagne bubbles and the soft lights glow. This is Habitat, the magnificent living complex designed by Israeli Architect Moshe Safdie and built on the tiny Cité du Havre peninsula for Canada's Expo '67. For a surprisingly long...
Violetta by Erich Hölle. 39 pages. Harvey House. $3.95. A svelte Belle Epoque horseless carriage rolls down through the century, from snug childhood as a famous racer to old age in a vintage car museum. Automotive anthropomorphism at its most arch, but well preserved...