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is and mess
The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess.
One can only speak of what is in front of him, and that now is simply the mess ''.
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now ''.
In military usage in Spanish and German, a casino or kasino is an officers ' mess ; curiously, in Italian-the source-language of the word-a " casino " is either a brothel, a mess, or a noisy environment, while a gaming house is called a " casinò ".
His position on Frontline is more tenuous than that of Mike or Brooke: in Dick on the Line ( series 3 ) he tells Mike and Brooke that at his age he signs his yearly contract immediately and does not mess about negotiating.
It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess.
Some help is needed in separating the cords so the dog does not turn into one large matted mess.
In addition, the medal is accompanied by a service ribbon for wear on military service uniform, a miniature medal pendant for wear on mess dress or civilian formal wear, and a lapel badge for wear on civilian clothes ( all shown in the accompanying photograph of the full presentation set ).
Detaching one slug from its host, they seal it in a film canister and bring it back to headquarters in Washington, D. C. By the time they get there though, the remains of the slug are a stinking mess, and they are unable to convince the President that there is an invasion.
Among them was the Campbell family of " Duntroon "; their imposing stone house is now the officers ' mess of the Royal Military College, Duntroon.
He goes to his mother, who seems to have grown prematurely old, and embraces her ; she cries because of the mess they have made of their lives, while he encourages her that there is hope for both of them.
A haggard mess, he at last climbs upon the halftrack, takes a rifle from a soldier and throws it over the side, and afterwards is repeatedly shot in the abdomen by the soldiers so as to inflict maximum suffering and discourage others from storming the halftrack.
-On winter black mess dress jacket and winter black service dress tunic: the cuff insignia is one wide gold braid below two standard size gold braids, the superior one includes the executive curl.
An officers ' mess at the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, Wiltshire, is also named after him.
The other mess on the site is named after Lord Roberts, and are known to the students as either " Kitch " or " Bob's Cafe ".
A Friend of the Earth is the story of Tyrone O ' Shaughnessy Tierwater, a U. S. citizen born in 1950, half Irish Catholic and half Jewish (" I'm a mess and I know it.
One often-cited tale is that of Fernand Lachance, from Warwick, Quebec, which claims that poutine was invented there in 1957 ; Lachance is said to have exclaimed ça va faire une maudite poutine (" it will make a damn mess "), hence the name.

is and you
Laurel is gone, my men are gone, Ed is dead -- and you come to me, to help me.
`` What is it you want me to do, Mr. Brenner ''??
Too many people think that the primary purpose of a higher education is to help you make a living ; ;
this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.
It is nothing you can put your fingers on but the air suddenly fills with a high charge of electricity.
Ballet dancer: Protests, tears, and `` take what you want, Nicolas, I am a dancer, you are a poet, it is all beautiful ''.
It is Eromonga -- look hard, you can see with your naked eye the wooden scaffolding on the cliff ''.
It is not good, Mr. Waddell: you will do him great harm ''.
There is nothing for you '', Matsuo said.
`` All right, if you can't do your arithmetic during school hours you can do it after school is out '', Miss Langford said firmly, not smiling.
`` As my wife puts it '', he said, again with a twinkle in his eyes, `` all you know is your music.
`` It is easy for you to talk '' ; ;
It is screaming at you even in the taxis of London ''.
that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.
The trouble here is that it's almost too easy to take the high moral ground when it doesn't cost you anything.
By virtue of his self-reliance, his individualism and his freedom from external restraint, the private eye is a perfect embodiment of the middle class conception of liberty, which amounts to doing what you please and let the devil take the hindmost.
All of this, I know, is recent history familiar to you.
Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.

is and can
`` That is, if we can be sure this is Colcord's money '' --
The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.
Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.
The box is internally wired so the door can never be opened without setting off a screeching klaxon ( `` It's real obnoxious '' ).
The stink is all the same to me, but I really think they can make one another out blindfolded ''.
It is well then that in this hour both of `` national peril '' and of `` national opportunity '' we can take counsel with the men who made the nation.
but they can hardly deny that, exaggerated or not, the old panorama is dead.
As his disciples boast, even though his emphasis is elsewhere, Faulkner does show his awareness of the changing order of the South quite keenly, as can be proven by a quick recalling of his Sartoris and Snopes families.
An order can be chanced rather than chosen, and this approach produces an experience that is `` free and discovered rather than bound and remembered ''.
That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.
indeed, it is maintained that the sexual element in jazz, by freeing the listener of his inhibitions, can have therapeutic value.
What they discuss with dialectical seriousness is the degree to which sex can inspire the Muse.
The professed mission of this disaffiliated generation is to find a new way of life which they can express in poetry and fiction, but what they produce is unfortunately disordered, nourished solely on the hysteria of negation.
All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

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