Word: spouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mentions that Alger Hiss, for example, was convicted of perjury for lying about his involvement with Chambers and that this verdict was delivered at the end of a trial which, the judge declared, centered on whether Chambers was telling the truth. No, Belfrage is too busy rushing on to spout another unsupported statement: "With respect to the Bomb, the Russians were fully capable of making their own..." This scattershot method, of course, was invented by that famous American political leader who once said that if this story didn't work, he had another which would: the junior Senator from Wisconsin...
Robert Romagna '74, a life-long resident of East Cambridge, should pick up a sizeable Italian vote. He says he supports Cheatham, but he is critical of Cheatham's teaching and administrative appointments. "The new teachers have been mindless political cadres who spout the liberal CCA line," Romagna said last week...
...second thought, maybe those who aren't Vic and Sade fans should stay away. The rest of us, though, may soon find ourselves referring to our offspring as "dust mop" and "down-spout," or walking through the front door at home with a soft "Hi de hi, ho de ho." · Jack Keil
Most of the characters are hysterical too much of the time for anything meaningfully comic to occur. It's like a prolonged night-club sketch. Andy and Norman know how to wisecrack like second-rate Henny Youngmans, and use this to put Sophie at a disadvantage. She can only spout whatever middle-Americanisms that the New York Jewish quipster-author felt right for the moment. I would for the life of me like to recount some dialogue for the record, but it is all so inert, so clearly the work of a hack intent on a string of easy laughs...
...Sears, Roebuck ones, with precise, naive drawings instead of the color pictures you find today." Thtfse catalogues define a dreamworld of real consumer goods; Carelman's show presents an actual world of fantasy goods. The 50 creations on display include a masochist's coffeepot with the spout over the handle, thus guaranteeing a scalding for anyone who uses it; an hourglass filled with pebbles, not sand, "for people who don't want to grow old"; a pipe with four different faucets for water at different temperatures; a hammer with a handle so bent that nobody...