Word: toto
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...appealingly vulnerable, evoking the image of a Dorothy who has just given up looking for the yellow brick road. She seems to have been dragged from '50s Kansas via the '60s Village only to be deposited by the inscrutable hand of Beattle in Salt Lake City of the '70s. Toto is replaced by "Ox," the ex-football player husband...
...promise to tell a lot of Woody Allen jokes, apparently all the ones Jacobs can remember. The hint in the title--which refers to the curtain line of Allen's best-received work, Annie Hall--is amplified on the back cover, where the paragraph containing the line appears in toto. It is also to be found on page 114, again in full, and at numerous other points in the text. If the reader prefers excerpts from Love and Death, or Bananas, or the early nightclub routines, or just pictures with explanations, they're all there as well, sprinkled liberally through...
...last year Reagan shrewdly showed that this procedure, known as "reconciliation," could also be turned against Congress. By demanding a single up or down vote, he managed to get his own budget cuts approved in toto and prevented them from being chewed up, committee by committee...
Fans never stop being awed and appalled by sports' high finances. (Cincinnati has surrendered its outfield in toto to New York-Ken Griffey and Dave Collins to the Yankees, George Foster to the Mets-for contracts amounting to more than $20 million.) But they are growing used to grand sums, not to mention outlandish arbitrations. Mike Flanagan, the Baltimore pitcher, submitted a figure of $485,000 and then found out that the Orioles' recommendation to the arbitrator was $500,000. Deferring to their superior judgment, Mike instantly gave...
...ready to count the University out in toto but, lo and behold! out of the ashes rise phoenix-like a Faculty which dares to take a vocal stand! I can only say that the combination of scholastic integrity and humanistic concern evidenced by those professors who spoke at the Faculty meeting has cast a much-needed beam of warm light on what for me has been a steadily paling view of what Harvard's community of "educated men and women" represents. I thank those professors and sincerely hope that they may further contribute some much-needed leadership and moral encouragement...