Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most sedate of the trio, while attempting to get his friend to withdraw the pastry from my person, said, "So. When are you gonna stop writing that you're surprised about the team doing well (including frequent colorful interjections...
...history of Catholicism in America, particularly in New England, has not been peaceful. In a land where attacks of nativism have been as frequent as the common cold, Catholicism has frequently been regarded as foreign and its adherents as mindless followers of an alien despot. When the Pope, following the example of the monarchs of Europe, sent over a block of marble to be included in the Washington Monument under construction in the 1840s, an angry mob threw the gift into the Potomac. Closer to home, an equally unpleasant mob burned to the ground the Ursuline Convent and made...
That's about it. The irreverence is not very sharp and not very frequent. One wonders why all the rabbinical groups are up in arms--only a few jokes about big noses and one very funny stoning scene would stir the yarmulke off the most orthodox Jew's head. More telling is a five-minute satire of the entire history of the early Christian church. Having chosen Brian as the true messiah at a sort of marketplace for prophets, several followers start interpreting his actions. Within minutes they have split into different sects, unable to agree why Brian has left...
...upper torso and arms and conceivably could have spread to other parts of his body. That made it easy for him to feign numbness wherever and whenever he chose. But he also could use medical jargon to describe the symptoms he could fake so well. When he suffered his frequent temporary losses of speech, he compensated by writing a technical account of his medical and personal history. These invariably included the fact that all his relatives had met violent deaths at the hands of I.R.A. "bombers and gunmen" -which made it difficult for anyone to check on his real identity...
Needless to say, the Ramones are the most pernicious band playing before American audiences today, advocating mindlessness and even lobotomy. And more than any other group, the Ramones--with their phenomenal energy and very frequent schedule--threaten to deafen a significant portion of the American population, leaving the nation helpless in the event of hostile thermonuclear assault...