Word: rereading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lights so he could get a better look. No lights, said White. Informed that he had 24 hours to get the juice back on or he would face a fine of up to $500 a day, White asked for a hearing. But the Boston housing inspection department reread its regulations and last week decided that White had a point. He is still in the dark, leaving Housing Inspection Director Frank Henry thoreauly mystified. "Today," he said, "the average person wants lights on." It was noted that the naturalist had no radio or TV. "Well," said Henry, "maybe...
...also never too late to read or reread Waugh. His vitality, matchless craftsmanship, audacious imagination and stinging perceptions ("She wore the livery of the highest fashion, but as one who dressed to inform rather than to attract") have not dated. Like Charles Ryder, the painter hero of Brideshead Revisited, Waugh focused "the frankly traditional battery of his elegance and erudition on the maelstrom of barbarism...
...movie proves that those strictures, when applied with flourish, can still carry an audience across the finish line. While Casey's Shadow is aimed squarely at eleven-year-olds, it is likely to captivate any grownup whose idea of heaven is to steal a Saturday afternoon and secretly reread Black Beauty or Charlotte...
...Retrieve paper airplanes, empty wastebasket, reread Playboy centerfold. Remember the writer who set fire to his apartment to avoid meeting a deadline...
...Cambridge don, has written probably the fairest account of London's life. British understatement proves to be just what the subject requires. But when it comes to London's books, Sinclair labors. Prophets are fashionable these days, so he recommends that The Iron Heel be reread as a prediction of fascism and argues that London's inside-dog stories anticipate the behavioral theories of Konrad Lorenz...