Word: sours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Industrial production in October, the most recently recorded month, fell 7% from the same period a year earlier, and farm output in 1972 was down roughly 10% from 197 1. The quality of production has slumped in nearly every category: most Chilean bread, for instance, is now a coarse, sour, brown sludge that produces more gas than nourishment. Allende is talking about handing back to Chilean businessmen some of the companies that his government earlier expropriated but now cannot manage...
...love for biology. With slatternly hair and frowsy bathrobe, Beatrice drags out her days on too much coffee and too many cigarettes, reading the want ads and trying to sell dance tickets on the phone. She wisecracks non-stop to waylay despair, but her sense of humor has gone sour and grates on even her daughters...
Olivier's face beautifully mirrors the progress of the games the characters play. When he's ahead, his high spirits bubble. He moves, and even prepares his caviar, with the rhythm of his Cole Porter 78's. But after even slight reversals in the plot, his face turns slightly sour; give him greater trouble and he'll pout; and if you beat him, why then he's momentarily lost, his virility sapped, though his rolling tongue will still grope for words with which to snatch victory...
...year later, everything turned sour. The Cowboys began to crumble during the first part of the season. On Nov. 15, Dallas lost, 38-0, to the St. Louis Cardinals (this was during the pre-Crone era). Three days later, Rentzel saw 2001: A Space Odvssey, and reacting strongly to the movie, his depression hit new depths. The following afternoon, he drove out aimlessly after practice before finally exposing himself once again...
...satire of Up the Sandbox is cozy and gloating. Women who bask in their husbands' success-indeed, live largely for it-are pitied. Any women who might object to having their husbands' lives forever take precedence are scorned as sour neurotics with sexual identity problems. Sandbox continually skirts more serious issues by smugly dwelling on such trivialities...