Word: sofas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bureaucratic resonance. But no label could be more deceptive. The regal thoroughbred that carries it is not the tallest horse that ever lived, but he is enormous by any other measure of size or performance. He has a neck like a buffalo, a back as broad as a sofa. His chest is so deep and wide that it takes a custom-made girth to encircle its 75% in. and hold the saddle. And he is still growing...
...puts it, "by a chronic physical deficiency which resulted in his inability to make love to a woman." In Paris, a countess eased up to the piano as he was playing Chopin and kissed him square on the lips "with a wild passion," while her husband dozed on the sofa...
...never bothers to turn on the lights, and as the early evening fades to night, the walls grow ever-closer to her now inert body. She is dozing on the sofa; the beer three-quarters gone. The ash-tray speckled and dusted with the remnants of four half-finished cigarettes...
...going to shoot you anyway." Stennis fell from two shots, and the attackers fled. Despite his wounds, Stennis lurched to his feet and struggled into the house, where his wife was ready to serve dinner. He told her to telephone for help, then lay down on a sofa to await an ambulance...
...report on cohabitation, Lowell Housemaster Zeph Stewart finds that "only about one out of every 3.5 students sleeps in a room not her own." "The statistics belie the insignificance of the problem," Stewart concludes, "Every student I talked with admitted that they really only slept on the living room sofa, or on the bedroom carpet, or platonically outside the covers--in all, just 'showing...