Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like the rest, is sliced from the Oxbridge fruitcake mold. There are some barriers to enjoying it--Monty Python's humor is based on a parody of British television, and although American TV is close enough for us to know what they're getting at, a lot of this stuff is bound to just pass us by. For some reason that may have to do with cultural heritage or perhaps their educational system, British audiences seem to respond most enthusiastically to jokes about transvestites and mutilated pets. The good routines, though, are universal. They're also impossible to summarize...
...high life, is a ubiquitous guest at jet-set parties. Still, dance is never far from his thoughts. "Every book I read, every film I see, each time I go to the theater," he insists, "it is all to gather information pertinent to the dance. You have to stuff yourself...
Referring to Harper, Minevitz said, "There are two different kinds of people you could choose. You could choose someone real artsy and esoteric, who's been in foreign films and stuff. Or you could choose someone like we did, someone who has almost unlimited mass appeal...
...respect as an intellectual in the field. The Times's Soma Golden and the Washington Post's Hobart Rowen have both done consistently fine work. Peter Milius of the Post recently explained with clarity the relationship between inflation, wage changes, productivity and unit labor costs-rather basic stuff, but necessary to educate a painfully ignorant public...
...being able to have long-term intense relationships--society expects women to learn the skills that go with that, ranging all the way from compromise on the one hand, to ability to make a man feel at ease, ability to perceive, ability to listen, all that kind of stuff. I don't think there's any intrinsic reason why women should do that more than men, but it's a fact that women are trained to do so, in incredibly subtle ways. None of this is at all original...