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...somewhat scrofulous West Side neighborhood, not far from the old Hell's Kitchen. Skells, panhandlers and a brigade of whores are working the streets, trying to avoid the 1,200 uniformed cops and 250 undercover men and women. The marquees of the porn theaters to the north are alight with titles like China Lust and Headmaster: There's Pleasure in Pain. Men at once jaunty and furtive are handing out leaflets advertising massage parlors. One spiel: "Check it out! Don't let Freud tell you what to do with it." At a recent briefing, some...
During their scrimmage yesterday, Demchenko innocently batted one teammate ten feet off the field. Wilson jogged happily onto the sideline. "You see what I mean," he said, his eyes alight, "When the Russian touches you, you're touched...
...Force One touches down at the airport, the half a dozen or so agents aboard alight first and are met at the ramp by a platoon of their colleagues. (The size of a White House detail?always a closely kept secret?varies from occasion to occasion.) The President's limousine, driven by an agent, awaits him at the ramp. The chief of the detail rides next to the driver; the President, usually with an adviser or a local dignitary, sits in back. Directly behind the President's car is the "Queen Mary," an open car with running boards and hand...
...ahead and build a power plant on top of anybody it want. But right now, the situation is hot enough and the opposition strong enough, to make Harvard's earlier statements about how there will be ground-breaking for the power plant in the next few weeks a very alight hope...
...scene looks like something out of The Godfather. A bearded Neapolitan and four unsmiling associates alight from a private jet, pile into a black limousine, and head for the office of a prominent editor. They take him for a ride to a local Italian restaurant, where much intense talk and spirited gesticulating ensue. A few hours later, the visitors fly off again in their plane...