Word: socking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reasoning that a puncture would be less painful where there were fewer nerves, he pulled up his left pants leg, exposing a skinny calf and a sagging sock, and began scraping. The cut was not clean, and Horowitz forced a muttered "fuck." The grad students smiled...
...dance floor fills with couples reliving junior high sock-hops. Every few minutes a fellow who works nights for Penn Central and is calling in sick to be here, jumps up to imitate Lennon. "Back in the USSR. Yeah! Back in the USSR," he sings, waving an invisible guitar over his head. "Yabadabadaba!" shouts someone as a Magical Mystery Tour Guide throws a box of blurry photos over the balcony. Suddenly, there's a minor re-enactment of mobbing the Beatles; this time it's only pictures. Hands clutch at the paper, as though they were home runs hit into...
Warm Applause. The instigator of the conference was Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, who urged creation of a "union of raw-materials-producing countries" that could sock home the message that henceforth those nations "insist on being masters in their own houses." He was greeted by warm applause from Third World delegates, who disregarded the fact that their poor nations are being hurt much worse than the industrialized countries by the rise in oil prices. Boumedienne appeared to be trying, all too successfully, to distract attention from that fact and undercut U.S. efforts to weld oil-burning nations into a bloc...
...have those "silky penises." The real sexual inequity is not that men have this great added marvel, a penis, but that "the female has an all-weather cunt. No wonder men invented the myth of female inadequacy." Women's only problem is jiving the need for sex with feminism. Sock it to 'em, Erica, baby. Show 'em what it feels like...
...events. It is a nostalgia movie a la mode and its success in reconstructing the early sixties is phenomenal. From the Coke to the burger stands with waitresses on roller-skates, from the souped-up cars to the ducktails and pony-tails, from the gang of hoods to the sock-hop, Lucas is unerring in his eye for detail and in his ability to bring his audience eleven years into the past...