Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brother, Hiram, who lived around the turn of the 19th century in Chepachet, Rhode Island, farming and sometimes building sleighs for $17.69 each. Before he gets too far into it, Salisbury interrupts the part about Hiram to explain what he is up to, and you soon begin to wonder if his researches were worth all the fuss or the money...
...their own constructions (the Arch of Titus). The ruin was part of the landscape of the time--in the gardens of the Villa Borghese fake ruins were along with an artificial waterfall and a man-made lake. Piranesi's Characters explore the ruins as they would a natural wonder, they admire them and scurry on top of them as they would a huge tree, or a rock. The small figure looking up at Trajan's Column in awe, or those dancing around the almost-buried columns of the Temple of Jupiter, come from a world which revered antiquity...
Television's Maude is an erratic woman, occasionally daffy, but is she a manic-depressive? And in this week's episode, does she actually take lithium carbonate, hailed by one specialist as "the first wonder drug of psychiatry"? Only her doctor knows for sure. Her scriptwriters don't, because they fudged the symptoms of manic-depression and substituted "proper medication" for "lithium"-all because Maude's illness was likely to create a stir in real-life medical circles...
...kinds of politics. But Trudeau also laments the passing of the idealistic 1960s. A melancholy Rev. Scot Sloan resigned his campus chaplaincy recently because "nobody cares about the issues any more," and when friends began mocking that decade of noble purpose, Mark Slackmeyer pulled his punch lines to wonder, "God, what's happened...
...E.S.T.)-don't you just love the title?-are chubby James Coco and padded Geraldine Brooks. They are the proprietors of a Mom and Pop lunch counter who are required to coo repulsively at each other and rub flab, while their slender customers express ironic wonder that these lard tubs are actually happier than they are. Gross...