Word: vilenesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ringidentification gimmick, so skillfully handled in Twelfth Night, is here even more awkwardly managed than in The Merchant of Venice. And interlarded along the way is another story involving the vile coward Parolles-a plot that has no organic connection, with the main tale...
...rectangular, concrete, and dark. I hope darkness is good for the fish and solaces them with its successful simulation of the blackness of the deeps, for at times, especially when looking into the central pool (populated with rudimentary goldfish and long-shouted fellows who may have been Marlowe's "vile torpedo"), it seemed that the fish were a little too considerately shrouded in nostalgic midnight. The denizens were separated in numerous small tanks, in dramatic contrast to the Florida occanariums I had visited in which large and small, carnivorous and vegetarian, hostile and affable fish were promiscuously mixed in huge...
Their attempts to smuggle hashish throughout the Middle East are astounding. It is a blessing that they are being detained in the vile prisons of Beirut, Istanbul and Rabat, if for no other reason than to prevent their trading more drugs in the U.S., and for the good of their own miserable souls...
Turf Accountants. Trying to regulate gambling is a centuries-old story in Britain. Henry III ordered his clergy to forgo dicing and chess playing "on pain of durance vile," but he lost so often to his barons at those very games that he was unable to come through with all the money he had pledged for the completion of Westminster Abbey. In feudal times, incorrigible gamblers had their hands whacked off. Henry VIII, who diced for the chapel bells of old St. Paul's-and lost-decreed the less painful punishment of fines in the Unlawful Games...