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ranting, raving mad

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..to break into a speech

ORATING..that, if made into a film, the O would be a zero

(I used to say that when movies had an M rating, an I meant it was approved for Immature audiences)

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..made a name for himself in a film about this kind of life; and it wasn't for what he was wearing

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INTROS


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..citrus fruit known as citrus medica


CITRON

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..king in the Blindpeople's

NATION

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...said Willa Cather

NATION

add A

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...what you were thinking

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N -->E

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..what you're describing; it's hard for me to visualize

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..as well as whether we should reveal to whom we're so

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..to this was not what I

INTENDED

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..a lawyer to do what he/she's supposed to do

RETAINER

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RETAINER

I'm not sure we're on firm ground here

drop E

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..likes to have its employees on the same ground, so to speak, so it stresses education

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..stationed around the perimeter

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..to drag away with force

WREST .. I've often thought Wilde named 'Importance' with a veiled homage to ERNEST Dowson, but I could be wrong..they were friends,and together in Dieppe in the late 90's (1890's, that is)

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STREW

add I

...he WRITES of Spring

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..Stravinsky RIGHTS any wrongs; nonetheless, in his RITES he

TRIES and tries, until he ineluctably TIRES (then he goes & kicks the tires on his Firebird)

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