Word: spit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Manhattan was the perfect antidote to Paris--lucrative and enjoyable from the very first week. And in further contrast to laissez-faire France, the chew 'em up, spit 'em out nature of the fashion business in New York demanded discipline, organization and punctuality from a model. More significantly, however, after my hapless period in Paris I had resolved to stop sabotaging myself with sullenness and instead to practice stretching out a smile, no matter how I felt inside. A silly idea, perhaps; but looking back, I believe it had a catalytic effect on the people around me, which in turn...
Manhattan was the perfect antidote to Paris--lucrative and enjoyable from the very first week. And in further contrast to laissez-faire France, the chew em up, spit em out nature of the fashion business in New York demanded discipline organization and punctuality from a model. More significantly, however, after my hapless period in Paris I had resolved to stop sabotaging myself with sullenness and instead to practice stretching out a smile no matter how I felt inside A silly idea perhaps, but looking back, I believe it had a catalytic effect on the people around me which in turn...
...religious groups. At a performance of Handel's Messiah by the Utah Oratorio Society, young firebrands repeatedly interrupted the concert with shouts of "Shame!" and were hustled away by police after they stormed the stage. When Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek denounced the hooliganism at a rally, a man spit in his face and proclaimed that "God gave me the strength...
...read this far, however you must be cooler than AOR and here are some places for you Spit, on Lansdowne St. is for the safety pin in the nose set The Metro, its neighbor, is only slightly more conservative. Both are hot, huge, modern dance halls replete with the latest videos. National new wave acts do make stops, but not much yet is scheduled for the summer...
Even fringe politics seems zanier than elsewhere. At this year's May Day demonstration in MacArthur Park, 200 members of the Revolutionary Communist Party were like heavyhanded caricatures of Commies, shouting, "We spit on the red, white and blue...