Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long black hair--once pigtails--tucked under his shabby raincoat complains to a caseworker that he can't get his welfare check cashed. No I.D. "I'm an Indian people," he slurs. His eyes are bulging out of deep-set sockets, his forehead protrudes and he seems perplexed, yet somehow he's managing the best he can. The social worker tells him there's nothing she can do, and he shouts at her as she walks away: "So what...
...national nightmare of political assassination -solely to win a new trial for her master and mentor, Charles Manson. The psychopathic guru had been sentenced to jail for life, along with three of his women followers, for the sadistic slayings of Actress Sharon Tate and six others in 1969. Somehow the act of threatening Ford made sense to Squeaky Fromme. Referring to the Manson "family," a Department of Justice official said: "They think that the people will say 'Hey, they mean business. They kill Presidents. Let's free Manson so they won't go on killing Presidents...
...many readers of The Ginger Man, James Patrick Donleavy's first and best novel, can somehow imagine its savagely baleful young anti-hero Sebastian Dangerfield being resurrected a quarter of a century afterward and sitting down to compose an advice book for late 20th century man, they should have a rough idea of The Unexpurgated Code. It might well be subtitled I'm Not O.K., You're Not O.K. A collection of bilious and often funny rules for living, the book qualifies as philosophy according to Donleavy's own definition: thoughts generated while confronting "wind, flood...
...SOMEHOW, though, Kosinski's early novels achieved a startling intensity of expression. The horrors witnessed by a child refugee in the villages of a malign, warravaged Eastern Europe in The Painted Bird take on an added dimension in its clinical, matter-of-fact narratives...
...Tempest is opening the season of the Boston Shakespeare Company. This play is full of magic and romance and beautiful language, and if you've somehow managed to go this long without seeing it, you should take advantage of this opportunity. Tonight and tomorrow at 8 at the Boston Shakespeare Company, Berkeley and Marlborough Streets in Back...