Word: wickednesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It's not easy living with a pinball machine. Television isn't the only thing that this wicked electronic monster entices me from. Somehow, reading about the lineage system of the User tribesmen isn't quite as thrilling as the orgasmic excitement of getting a really good flip that sends...
The more she saw, the less she liked. The Quakers who founded the first American prison in Philadelphia in 1790 may have thought that rescuing sinners from a wicked world and putting them in solitary with a Bible was more humane than flogging, branding or the stocks. But Miss Mitford...
Tales of being thrown out on the street with 103 degree fever at 3 a.m. spread quickly. Stories of wicked doctors who sneeringly refuse treatment become more prevalent as colds and stuffed-up noses become more irritating.
Saul Bellow's introductory sketch of Berryman adds a great deal to the novel. It's a rare piece, full of quaint anecdotes of their shared careers at Princeton and the University of Minnesota. Bellow knew the writer as a man first--as the man whose gruff arrogance was only...
Whimsical, quirky, sensuous Aunt Augusta is Henry's last chance at life. Henry simply hasn't lived. And it is his travels with her, to Istanbul in the flesh and into her past in reminiscence, that initiate him. Surviving one shocker after another, his stolid primness relaxes into tolerance. Augusta...