Word: droppingly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Ditto for the girl who interrupts your dining-hall conversations on a weekly basis in order to make everyone sing "Happy Birthday" for one of her two dozen roommates, all of whom you considered to be almost as grating and nauseatingly bouncy as the sing-along leader herself. Just drop me a note giving me the name of anyone you absolutely do not want to see at your reunions, along with the reason why (this is just for my own personal amusement), and you can rest assured that that person will not be invited...
...green Forest Service truck, over dirt roads, through the most beautiful forests where the trees are very tall and shafts of sunlight come down and in the mountain streams the rainbow trout leap out and their little trout sides catch glimpses of light. Then my father would drop me in the woods and go off. It was a weird, comforting feeling being in the woods. There were odd, mysterious things. That's the kind of world I grew...
...murders were the least mysterious element in this feral, fertile inversion of It's a Wonderful Life. Each shot was crafted with the off-center elegance and pristine passion of a modernist painter. But with its mix of battered beauties and severed ears, Blue Velvet might have been his drop-dead letter to Hollywood. Instead, it made the maverick bankable. His next big project would find takers on network...
...manual -- under various pseudonyms. Ben C. Toledano, one of the founders of modern Republicanism in Louisiana, sees nothing of Huey in Duke. "My family has lived in New Orleans for 265 years -- a long time for Americans, and I don't see anything Southern in Duke. You drop him in Iowa, or anywhere, and he would get the same response...
...Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in five minutes. Americans fear that Iraq could launch a salvo of 50 to 60 missiles, accompanied by an aircraft attack. Saddam, they say, would try to make it appear that the U.S. and Israel had provoked the attack, possibly by having an Iraqi aircraft drop a bomb on Baghdad...