Word: semis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...linguistics graduate who drives a cab; the B.A. in marketing who makes $3.50 an hour in a party-favors store; the Ph.D.s who work as stewardesses, fishermen, welders, bank tellers. All bear witness to the death of the deeply ingrained American belief that a college diploma is a semi-automatic passport to a high-paying job and a fulfilling career. As a Wellesley senior puts it, "After college, there is no free lunch...
...dropping peanut shells on the floor and putting a poptop back into the beercan before you slurp up the suds oozing around the rim, Jimmy Buffett may just be standing right in front of you, along with the pedal steel you've been looking for. Jimmy Buffett is a semi-permanent escapee, you see, whose major claim to fame as far as the Southern vocabulary goes is his invention and frequent usage of the phrase "commode-hugging drunk," which comes in real handy on recriminating mornings replete with description and Darvons...
...writing itself is usually a pleasure. It's done in long, tangled, eclectic sentences; the thoughts come to him in bursts of various length, each one striving for profundity and literary value. This sometimes produces streams of semi-meaningless maxims (of Rubin, "He is Jimmy Connors deciding to be Chrissie Evert, as solemn as an oil rig;" of Canada, "a New Zealand on rubber wheels." Leonard must have some idea what these things mean). It also sometimes produces really good and perceptive lines (writers "will descend into pulpdom, where the libidinal cathexes are so simpleminded it seems that anyone with...
...trial's semi-retired judge, Julius Hoffman, 80, who had handed down 123 contempt citations to the defendants for such actions as blowing a kiss to the jury, felt triumphant: "I've been vindicated...
Simmons was stopped in the semi-finals, losing four out of five duels to stiff international competition. But he added still another titleholder to his collection of victims by vanquishing Scott Bozak, the current U.S. national champion...