Word: strewn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Many of the reddest noses were found in places like Tom English's Cottage and Chauncey's pub, establishments packed to the rafters with old, freckle-faced ale-lovers and smiling lassies and laddies ordering up Heinekens because they like the color of the bottle. Though the curbs were strewn with cans and bottles by the end of the party, the fierce neighborhood of the Southie community remained. Staggering sometimes, the kids emerged with big plastic garbage bags after the parade and cleaned up their streets...
Died. Edith Bouvier Beale, 81, aunt of Jacqueline Onassis who lived as a recluse in a refuse-strewn, 28-room Long Island mansion with her unmarried daughter Edith, 59, and an army of cats; in Southampton, N.Y. Mother and daughter were nearly evicted in 1972 when neighbors complained. Later they were subjects of a documentary film, Grey Gardens, which some critics felt held them up to ridicule. "Big Edie," however, enjoyed making the film. Said she: "Nobody else wanted to take my picture...
...narrator (and presumably, the author, for much of this is obviously autobiographical) claims she doesn't believe in evolution. "It seems to me that there are given things, all strewn and simultaneous." That is an excellent description of the way her novel works. All the information is there, but there is no way to piece the fragments together. Life, as Jennifer Fain sees it, resists the ordering processes we try to impose upon it. Because she cannot detect a pattern in experience, she contents herself with collecting examples of the perverseness of life...
Grant Elementary, squatting amid glass-strewn streets, decaying houses and a massive public housing project on Chicago's tough West Side, used to resemble a way station to nowhere. Two years ago, sixth-graders were reading at an average of two full years below their grade level. Says Chicago's District 9 school superintendent Albert Briggs: "They were programmed to fail when they got to high school...
Even if the game of chicken succeeds and Britain gets the IMF loan with few strings, the winter is strewn with pitfalls. Shortly, Parliament will begin a debate on home rule for Scotland. If moneymen could be so shaken by an unsupported story in the Sunday Times, what will be their reaction to screams from Scottish Nationalists for control over the revenues from North Sea oil, Britain's putative salvation...