Word: things
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another shipbuilder, Richard Dennison, 59, of South Thomaston, who has been in the business for 29 years, is also optimistic. Said he: "I'd like to see more of the same kind of boats. Maybe then the Arabs would drown in their own oil." Not likely. But one thing is certain: when Ned Ackerman takes the Leavitt on her maiden voyage, whether they sail north or south, skipper and ship will be moving in the right direction.-Hays Gorey
...charge? shipbound reporters asked Carter. "Ask the Vice President," Carter flippantly replied. The next day Carter pointedly corrected himself and said that the man in charge was "the President." But he added that the disarray in his Administration was "no serious thing," merely "little transient squabbles...
...praise Gerald Hiken as Strider might be too faint a thing to do. You only believe in him if you have ever been moved to laughter, truth and tears. No one can ask more of an actor at the match point of illumination...
...UNITE, TAKE BACK THE NIGHT. In Cambridge, Mass., a porn fighter fired a rifle shot in the middle of the night into a Harvard Square bookshop that she said carried pornographic literature. With obvious hyperbole, Cleveland Antiporn Campaigner Sandra Coster says of the crusade: "It's the one thing women can unite on [because] we all get raped and we all get beaten...
...Bowles character jots down a "recipe for dissolving the impression of hideousness made by a thing: Fix the attention upon the given object or situation so that the various elements, all familiar, will regroup themselves. Frightfulness is never more than an unfamiliar pattern." Bowles may believe this, but his stories regularly do the reverse. They fix the attention on beauty and then suggest the frightfulness within. Pages from Cold Point, Bowles' best, eeriest tale, paints an idyllic Jamaican setting. But the narrator soon learns that his 16-year-old son is homosexual and has been cruising in dangerous native...