Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mastroianni has no sooner bedded the girl than he learns there is a chance that she might be his daughter, the issue of one of his youthful liaisons. The mother is long dead, and the truth is never definitively determined, but the scandalous possibility is not to be taken too literally anyway; it serves mainly as something for a naturally cautious, rather distracted male to employ as justification for his hesitations. Even without it the man evidently would come to resist the impulsiveness and vitality of his young lover. When she finally leaves him, it is not the taboo that...
...year shut-in whose entire knowledge of life comes from watching television. What might happen, Kosinski wonders, if such a man were suddenly forced to leave home and become a citizen of the real world? The answer to that question is Being There's single joke: no sooner does Chance venture out than he is mistaken for a philosopher, a sex symbol and a potential presidential candidate. The secret of his success is TV. Having been nurtured by the medium, Chance has all the attributes of a perfect TV star; he is bland, nonthreatening and always cheery...
Galbraith predicts the country will accept his ideas "as a result of the force of circumstance and not as the result of any persuasion by economists. Sooner or later politicians will figure out that there is nothing else...
...much I would give to have been born sooner so I could have followed The Who for its whole career. Its music, rock 'n' roll without compromising intelligence and wit, is as timeless as Beethoven and the Beatles...