Word: unstarching
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...game. If Pleshette Mary Tyler Moore developed a split personality, her two halves could be spun off as Kate and Allie. Played in wound-up preppie style by Curtin, Allie is the kind of roommate who makes meatloaf while wearing 5 pearls. Kate, a low-key tomboy, tries to unstarch Allie by taking her camping: "Come on, I'll teach you to make a fire by rubbing two credit cards to gether." Both women are ruthlessly verbal and seem actually to have read books. Although there is nothing overtly urban about the show, the clipped backchat makes...
...wary Congress prepared to open hearings on John Kennedy's" broad new bill to expand U.S. trade abroad, the President tried shrewdly last week to unstarch the protectionists' arguments. He released the facts and figures of the final tariff-chopping deal under the expiring Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act to show that his Yankee traders did very well indeed...
...Season of Mists, by Honor Tracy. Part hoyden, part waif, and part Irish, this comic author loves to unstuff shirts, unstarch pomposity, and rip the cotton batting out of fuzzy minds. In her latest novel, an aging, 18-year-old Lolita dynamites a rich art fancier's ivory tower...
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