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Three-legged dog
Read more: Three-legged dogItalians say Minichiello as an anti-Vietnam hero. Late summer indolence is quirky. News makes waves from humid nothings. Magazines write about whether cats have souls, or if Russians are more susceptible to flirtation than, say, Pakistanis, who are in turn besieged by deviously wicked floods. August tells you that American…
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Woeful
Read more: WoefulSeeing past bad tidings. With ominous tidings inflicted hourly on an already nervous population, the obvious needs restating: The new mass media, larger than any before it, depends on the dire for logic and attention. If natural catastrophe is a banquet for all tastes, economic woe is poisoned more insidiously.…
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Herr
Read more: HerrShort and specific… Once upon a time, Many lived in a castle it shared with its eccentric friend Several. Though many considered Many an adjective, several thought of it as a pronoun, which is a noun but more optimistic. Pretty Many was a happy camper. Any time anyone needed a…
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51 summers
Read more: 51 summersNixon and Khrushchev in 1959. Picture it. A dapper vice president and a squat Soviet leader arguing over the role of kitchen appliances and color televisions through a translator inside a model U.S. suburban home built to order in Moscow. Here was straight-laced Richard Nixon sparring with Vodka-powered Nikita Khrushchev…
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Slups
Read more: SlupsPersonalized entertainment. August in the city was hot. I didn’t need The Lovin’ Spoonful to offer up perplexing analogies between cats, kitties and the dog days of summer, but they did anyway. I spent portions of the summer of 1966 watching Tony and Sarah kiss in the alley near the…
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Annuit cœptis
Read more: Annuit cœptisHAL9000: Servile until aroused. Choice was for a long time associated with wisdom. Wise choices reflected critical thinking; unwise ones generally flattered emotionalism at the expense of common sense. Learning to distinguish between the two measured the progress from undisciplined youth to adult accountability. Politics sustained the ethos. Statesmen advertised…
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