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Word: somehow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sugary-coated spring-bolts of, say, Queen's music, than I do for the sight of a drooling Fay-Wray-hypnotised Kong. Give me Bad Company any day. But to get back to the unfortunately surnamed Mr. Bangs' image, I guess we're supposed to believe that somehow heavy metal has become deader than any dodo, or at least lost its teeth, claws and selfish-gene nastiness and become a lumbering, well-meaning vegetable-eater with about as much magnetism as those scurrying, tree-climbing ancestors of ours busily devouring leaves and trying not to be devoured by beasts...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: A Quartet of Dragons | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

...exploring the hidden terrors of the individual mind and the artist's efforts to exorcise them through his work, Resnais, for all his technical aplomb, cannot fully transcend the privacy of the nightmare. The effect of his camera work and wordplay is dazzling, but the tension they create is somehow sterile. The agony of Gielgud's musings is intelligible, in the end, only...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Through a Glass, Bluely | 4/20/1977 | See Source »

...first inning had the Engineers reaching for their Bowmars as the Crimson packed the sacks with two walks and an MIT miscue. But MIT pitcher Ken Smith, whose lack of speed was exceeded only by his lack of control, somehow slipped third strikes past Paul Halas and Billy Blood to snuff the rally...

Author: By Carl A. Esterhay, | Title: Crimson Nine Derail Engineers, 5-1, As Brown Is on Track Against MIT | 4/13/1977 | See Source »

...silent...One last question--and somehow I think you know the answer... Will [Anna] join me in Virginia and will she and I and Siobhan begin a new life there...

Author: By Jean A. Riesman, | Title: Mercy, Mr. Percy | 4/13/1977 | See Source »

...IRISH are a fair people," Samuel Johnson once said; "They never speak well of one another." To the extent that Corry's book ends with the tragedy of the clan's Americanization, its assimilation into a new, and somehow less vital society, perhaps the criticism is valid. For Corry, as another Irishman, can never really condone the family's fall from a state of Gaelic grace, and his book carries with it the insistently remonstrative tone of the well-bred but confidently self-righteous priests and nuns who people it. But still, Corry recognizes that he can't speak...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: A Lace Curtain-Call | 4/12/1977 | See Source »

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