Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Liddy stared at his typrwriter, inspecting it for boobytraps. It looked safe but as a precaution he stood several feet from his desk and used a fire poker to strike an "L." Satisfied, he sat down to write the first sentence of his novel...
...what about individual men? In lashing out at the male oppressor class, will the lesbian movement (whatever it may be construed to be) strike at persons regardless of their individual philosophies or potential...
...Edelhart's writing is so exaggerated. Edelhart occasionally delivers a piercing phrase. His writing rarely drags, but among the abundant exclamation points lurk tired ideas--suggestions that today strike even grandmothers as quaint...
...members have been on strike for over nine months. Nine lettuce prodiucers have refused to sign the contract...
While lines like "Men aren't all bad, just 92 per cent bad" ring hollow, worshippers of Texan jargon strike oil in Whorehouse. But you can find choicer idioms in the glorious novels of Peter Gent and Dan Jenkins. Those novels aren't pretentious; this play is. It strains to hard to mock every Texan myth that the effect is laughable, more than laudable. So see it and laugh--after all, John Connally may be the next president. And John Tower reportedly liked it. Hot damn...