Word: spaghetti
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...Spaghetti Club might find its licenses revoked if the Cambridge License Commission determines next week that bar employees escalated a fight among patrons that occurred...
...characters aren't so much bad or wooden--even that would grant some substance--as unbearable. The plot wanders around, entangles itself, and becomes that pile of spaghetti that you can't pick up no matter how hard you try. Even the editing borders on the incoherent at times (or does that mean it's good...
According to Scali, the commission generally investigates five or six establishments at one time in order to avoid singling out one bar. The Hong Kong Restaurant, Grendel's Den, the Spaghetti Club and the Bow and Arrow Pub were the other area bars searched by the Cambridge police on April...
McInerney's acuteness as a social critic remains intact (a late '70s dinner party is said to have taken place "just before spaghetti became pasta"), as does his occasionally tart way with language. Impressive too is the quiet way in which Patrick, the narrator, finally comes to terms with his conflicting drives. There is a surprising modesty here at the end of this clamorous and overreaching book, a frank conservatism that is close to daring in a work of contemporary fiction...
...another argument, you say that the word is unwiedly. So are the words spaghetti and Massachusetts. Perhaps we shouldn't use those to describe the noodle or the state. I simply suggest that you try a little harder, and maybe you will soon be able to pronounce "first-year" quite handily. I have no difficulties, and willing to be your speech coach if you do not soon meet with success...