Word: pyromaniac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Socialist Leader Francois Mitterrand claims that the 1978 price of the wage and welfare package will be $8.3 billion. Premier Raymond Barre contends that the entire Common Program would cost $32.7 billion. According to Barre, Mitterrand is "a pyromaniac masquerading as a fire fighter," whose extravagant schemes will destroy the center-right government's economic achievements...
...enjoy Christmas much more than Hannukah. I hate holidays that change dates from year to year; it is confusing enough to have Massachusetts celebrate Veterans Day three weeks later than the rest of the country, but Hannukah is a bit much. The only thing the holiday satisfies is my pyromaniac tendency--being the second of five kids, my opportunities to light the Hannukah candles may be limited now, but for a while there, I had the market cornered. For quite a while, you see, my older sister was afraid to light a match, so another sibling and I fought...
...author endows his most gro tesque characters with a certain beau ty. His kinkiest people - an albino Negro pyromaniac, a senile, one-eyed dishwasher - are the imaginings of a major talent...
...again. De Hartog's four stages of religion go something like stages of religion go something like this: in the beginning, naturally, there are the seers and prophets. The Peaceable Kingdom opens with young George Fox galloping into Lancashire to spread the inner light, rather like a spiritual pyromaniac. Fox received the standard bloody treatment of prophets, and a bit more, at the hands of mobs and at the hands of the Establishment, too. Religious ecstasy, De Hartog makes clear, is the ultimate revolution, to which society reacts with equal and opposite frenzy...
...handling street hassles. If she hasn't been kidnapped at infancy from a baby carriage parked in front of the A and P, she will still have a good chance of being accosted by a drunken sailor, robbed, heckled, smoked out of a Madison Avenue bus by a pyromaniac lighting matches on the back seat, and altogether pinched so often and in so many strange places that if the IRT subway line could be held responsible and sued it would go bankrupt faster than the Pennsylvania Central. And finally, if she gets really lucky, like the five-year-old daughter...