Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...armpits. As for Dad, he keeps getting punched in the eye because he won't switch his brand of cigarettes. So he asserts his virility by barreling around mountain roads in his wide-track, fastback, four-on-the-floor Belchfire with the racer's edge. And Junior, well, the sudden joy of discovering that he's got 27% fewer cavities has apparently unhinged him. Now he stands in front of the mirror all day and counts his pimples. And after dinner, the whole family gathers at the hearthside, unwraps their Wrigley's and, with...
...apparent inevitability of the Nixon and Humphrey nominations, one component of the New Politics, the public-opinion polls, could conceivably persuade convention delegates to change their minds if the front-runners were to suffer sudden unpopularity. Meanwhile, President Johnson last week moved to assure a wider constituency for the New Politics in elections to come. He proposed a constitutional amendment granting the vote to 18-year-olds...
...first section of the novel, dealing with Weiss's most formative years, is rendered in a mist of Proustian reverie set off by the death of his father. Incidents of incestuous exploration with his sister, her sudden death, his adolescent impotence, his art student's vie-not-so-Bohème, are all presented with a quiet but quivering honesty...
...Ulster is not about to forget the name. The Northern Ireland government provided Cadillacs for any MelIons that needed transportation, even furnished an athletic subofficial as a partner for a Mellon who got a sudden impulse for a spot of tennis. After giving the assembled Mellons a ceremonial dinner in the Parliament building in Belfast, Prime Minister O'Neill journeyed next day to Omagh to help dedicate the ancestral cottage. Said he: "This home will forever be a monument not just to the Mellon family but to the potential of human character in a land of opportunity...
...Scenes. Where has Hollywood's sudden vivid interest in homosexuality come from? "It comes from what's happening all around,'' suggests Director John Schlesinger, whose new film, Midnight Cowboys is about a male prostitute. "Everybody does more or less what he wants to these days, and no one says anything about it. Films are a reflection of that attitude, and homosexuality is just one part of the whole scene...