Word: toilworn
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...classic Gorbachev performance. After allowing the national parliament to wrangle all week long over the merits of various plans to renovate the economy, the Soviet President decided he had heard enough debate from the toilworn legislators. Late on Friday afternoon Deputy Yuri Golik, a close Gorbachev ally, proposed, without prior discussion, a resolution that would give the President almost total power to overhaul the enfeebled economy by decree...
...exposition of ancient and modern Indonesian art, Affandi's 48 pictures are a curious combination of East and West. He paints anything that catches his eye-huge Western bridges, gritty red-light districts, stolid water buffaloes, dead chickens, his friends, his toilworn mother. And he paints them with obvious emotion: his lines are slapdash, his colors sometimes slop together in incoherence. But more often the result he gets is a soaring, faintly oriental fantasy...
...youth movements so toilworn...
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