Word: twins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dream feeling that my life is the non-identical twin, a parody, an inferior variant of another man's life, somewhere on this or another earth. A demon, I felt, was forcing me to impersonate that other man, that other writer who was and would always be incomparably greater, healthier and crueller than your obedient servant...
...Republicans sleep in twin beds -some even in separate rooms. That is why there are more Democrats...
JUST A FEW years back, Harvard used to celebrate twin rites of spring: a student demonstration in the Yard, and a Mozart opera at Leverett House. It was too good to last. Some claimed the demonstrations helped send Nixon to the White House. I guess the operas must have helped send Leverett's Master to the New York City Opera. And there matters rested until this year. So with Watergate behind us, as the saying goes, a Mozart revival was clearly past...
...this anyone we know? That question constantly haunts Vadim Vadimych: "I now confess that I was bothered ... by a dream feeling that my life was the nonidentical twin, a parody, an inferior variant of another man's life, somewhere on this or another earth. A demon, I felt, was forcing me to impersonate that other man, that other writer who was and would always be incomparably greater, healthier and crueler than your obedient servant...
...bizarre spectacle, garnished with machismo and the threat of death: the ultimate expression of the motorcycle culture and, according to one Evel Knievel aide, "a blue-collar Woodstock." Squadrons of bikers roared through Twin Falls, their girls and gear nestled against their backs. Fans from every state in the union formed a camper city that was soon awash in beer, dope, cocaine and false rumors of savage beatings and rapes...