Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stenvig ousted Hofstede in 1975, and now Hofstede has won again. A liberal who managed Hubert Humphrey's last Senate bid, he outcampaigned Stenvig-and outspent him 5 to 1. Stenvig's parting shot in a game that may not have ended: "I have only one last word of advice to the taxpayers of Minneapolis: Watch your wallets...
...limits of fast writing. He usually enters the 42nd Street newsroom around noon, fatigued after several hours spent on street corners interviewing people and pressured by the four p.m. deadline. His writing is a kind of hit or miss occupation. He doesn't have the time to make each word mean something. Regardless of the complex emotional feelings he has towards his subject for the day, the copy often rolls off the presses sounding trite and over-simplified...
...value on her daughter's chastity but a great deal on her safety, her integrity, her right to be a person--all of which the rape defied. In her political discussions Val had avoided saying "the system." But in the case of the rape there was no sidestepping the word. The system was men, and the system was guilty--cops, doctors, attorneys, as well as the black youth who pled guilty and the judge who sentenced him to six months for battery. Val recalled her liberal sympathy for the black boys in the line up and realized she'd never...
...with Green Hair) conveys menace with every worn-out Hitchcock device except a creaking door. Delon is summoned to a strange country house, where aristocrats he has never met greet him warmly, and the second Klein's mistress, acted with a shrug by Jeanne Moreau, plays word games with him. Even the other fellow's dog unaccountably (and illogically) takes a liking...
...mankind ever seeks some unify ing principle or vision. In a much earlier Borges collection, it took the form of the "Aleph," a tiny spot of light in which everything that occurred in the world could be seen simultaneously. In the new book, there is "undr, " a single word meaning wonder, which is an ancient tribe's entire body of literature. The Book of Sand is an other expression of this hyperidealism. A collector acquires a clothbound octavo volume bearing the title "Holy Writ." But he can never find the same place twice...