Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...husband and wife with Siamese-twin voices that make it hard to tell who's the boy and who's the girl, and even whether one or both are singing. They muse at the quaint notions of elders, who think that people who spend their allowances before they get them won't be able to make a go of marriage...
...pointed out that the exact amount of the new revenues would vary with the demand for coins, thus could not be depended upon to meet the needs of any single program. That said, the committee promised to report back on Dec. 1 with concrete recommendations on how to spend the windfall...
...forms the basis-but only the basis-for this perceptive, unsensational novel. For Marcello, son of a domineering manufacturer, the affair begins casually as one among many he has already enjoyed. He is unemotionally pleased by the physical pleasure and equally delighted to pick up some extra cash to spend on his girl. But for Forrest the affair is unique: what begins as a distraction becomes an obsession-both with Marcello and with Rome. At last, realizing that he will always remain essentially an alien both to Marcello and to Rome, he breaks off the affair and returns...
...meeting than the French, but somewhat less so than the Italians. The Germans are not so much worried about the possibility of a money shortage as they are about the inroads of U.S.-owned firms, would like to put limits on the amount of dollars that U.S. businessmen could spend abroad. As Fowler at week's end prepared to move on for talks in Sweden, Britain and The Netherlands, however, he was heartened and surprised by the extraordinarily warm tribute of Bundesbank President Karl Blessing: "Mr. Fowler, we want you to know that you are among friends...
Jacques marries Viviane and now proceeds to go AWOL from the world around him. He abruptly leaves the wedding party given by his boss. Fired for his rudeness, he begins to spend his days wandering contentedly by himself. He gazes at things for hours until they lose their conventional reality-an effect brilliantly conveyed by a surrealistic camera that converts a slice of bread into a mysterious mass of caverns, an iron lamp base into a writhing monster...