Word: vaines
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...classic male-supremacist lies: that women dominate men, and that women are parasites while men do all the work." Such arguments do not go down well with the director. "Men ought to picket my films in protest," she suggests. "Think of how they are portrayed in my films: all vain, arrogant and stupid, real chauvinists who believe in the superiority of the penis...
Freshman goalie Paul Skidmore of B.C. made 27 saves, many of them in the third period as Northeastern scrambled in vain for a comeback...
...Canaan, a city in New York's Connecticut backyard. She had only limited exposure to the church before she arrived here: Her mother (whose grandmother was the daughter of a second wife of a polygamist) and father (a scientist who believes in super-intelligence and thinks Mormons are vain to see god as a personage) grew up in Utah. When they moved East 25 years ago, they rejected Utah and Mormonism as unwanted remembrances of provincialism past. Liquor is served at home, and Christensen adds, "I learned how to make martinis...
...into giving him $8,700 of the money for safekeeping. En route, he persuaded O'Keefe to stay overnight in Tampa. They checked into a motel, and at 4 a.m. Medlin walked out with the cash. For days a diver hired by CBS searched off Key West-in vain. Admitted a philosophical Salant: "We've been had before...
...adrenaline world of journalism. Much of the novel's lunatic telegraphese was pure reportage. After the invasion, for example, newspaper offices heard a rumor that the Italians had bombed a native hospital, killing a beautiful American nurse. Editors demanded the story of "nurse upblown." After a vain search, Waugh cabled back: "Nurse unupblown...