Word: washing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...along the lines of attitudes, strategies and age. Everything's okay, he whispers; sure we had some disagreements a while ago, but that's all over, we all want the same things, so let's bury bad memories and do some old fashioned singin'. But it won't wash...
...with the pretty Vietnamese girls, they and the Seabees seemed to think it was all a worthwhile lark-which turned out to be just the right attitude to make the Vietnamese feel at home." One sailor decided at midweek to marry the Vietnamese girl whose clothes he had helped wash on the previous Sunday, but whose full name he did not yet know...
...treasurer of Colorado: "My first reaction was one of hollowness. The reason, I guess, is that I don't see that the fall of Saigon gives rebirth to any of those things that the war killed, to any new hope or ideal or vision. "It doesn't wash away the hostile divisions of the last 15 years in this country. The group of people who make our foreign policy are the same men who have made the decisions for the last 20 years -and made them badly...
...Bones, which distorts these stereotypes without ever quite leaving them behind. Rabe is out to spare us nothing. Not only do characters in this particular situation comedy have to go the the bathroom; worse, they come out with lines like "I want to drink from the toilet and wash there." This is precisely what Rabe wants us to do--to rub our noses in all that is sordid and smelly in the way of life we've spent so much blood trying to inflict on the rest of the world...
...urban sprawl (see map). If he wished, he could stop for a grinder at Mamma Lisa's Pizza House, a beer at Moriarty's Bar, a pound of chopped chicken liver at Levine's Kosher Meat Market or lunch at the China Bo Restaurant. He could wash his horse blanket at Launderland or even trade in his steed for something with more horsepower at any of half a dozen automobile dealerships along the way. But Di Carlo will be spurred on by a schedule that permits no dallying, not even at the Paul Revere Liquor Mart...