Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strick omits most of Joyce's well-worded obscurities ("met him pike hoses frillies for Raoul"), but makes telling use of the author's dry Irish drolleries ("weather as uncertain as a child's bottom"). He also gets some gross guffaws with Joyce's dirty jokes, among them Molly's assertion that oral sex practices can cause a woman to grow a mustache. As for the people who read the roles, most of them are recruited from the Abbey Theater, and they ring true as Irish shillings-particularly Actor O'Shea, whose Bloom...
...lack of knowledge on many domestic and most foreign issues magnifies his verbal ineptitude. He is not trying to be ambiguous and deceptive; he simply is uncertain and does not have enough facts to circumvent issues and still satisfy his listener. At a press conference last year, he discussed the "British blockade of Nigeria...
Sitting in Cambridge, all John Monro could say about Glimp's folder at first was "maybe." Glimp was just another veteran--and the criteria for admitting veterans were still uncertain. His application didn't exactly cry for attention. "My record wasn't exciting," Glimp recalls. "Neither was I." His lack of an interview also hurt...
...Prime Minister who presided over the worst election setback in the history of India's ruling Congress Party, Indira Gandhi might well have expected to be dismissed from office, for her lackluster campaigning and uncertain leadership contributed to the debacle. Yet, as Congress Party leaders gathered in New Delhi last week to decide what to do next, Indira seemed almost certain to hold...
African slave labor once scraped fortunes for British planters from the soil of these lush islands, but today they are rich only in scenery, have precarious, one-crop economies, which have been hurt by increased competition abroad. The St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla group (pop.: 60,000) suffers from uncertain prices for its sugar. The fortunes of St. Lucia (100,000), Grenada (88,000) and Dominica (67,000) slide or surge along with the world price for their bananas. Only Antigua (65,000), with its casino and 33 hotels, attracts a sizable tourist crowd; it needs visitors more than usual this...