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...Mike Hammer prefers stride (when he's not playing chopsticks), and John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee fuses bebop and rap: "Go get the lady with the unusual haircut and add her to the stack. Go get Meyer and the boat and bring the boat around. Use the big anchor and the power takeoff winch to pull the Flush out of the mangroves. Cork up the Munequita and rig a pump and float her." The form has also had its share of parodies. The best was S.J. Perelman's Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer: "I shifted my two hundred pounds slightly...
...dreadnought is really shipshape, it seems, without a set of ceremonial silver. When the Missouri was mothballed back in 1955, ten years after the surrender ceremony ending World War II was held on her decks as she lay at anchor in Tokyo Bay, 338-piece silver set was returned to the citizens of Missouri, who had generously donated the finery. With the Missouri returning to action, the Navy wanted the silver back. Problem was, Missouri Governor John Ashcroft wanted to hang on to the ship's engraved punch-bowl set, which has been on display at the state capital...
...think it's a mistake to go to the Saudis for help to firm up the price of oil," New York Congressman Jack Kemp told the Buffalo News. Asked for his comments on Bush's predicament, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole declared, "I don't believe in throwing an anchor to a drowning...
...boycott was sparked last October by the demotion of Harry Porterfield, a black newsman who co-anchored WBBM's 6 p.m. weekday program. The station moved Porterfield to weekend anchor chores to make room for the returning Bill Kurtis, a former WBBM anchor who had left his post in 1982 to join the CBS Morning News. When the disaffected Porterfield was wooed by rival WLS-TV, WBBM offered to boost his salary to $300,000. After WLS again raised the ante, reportedly to a five-year contract worth more than $2 million, Porterfield opted to join WLS as a reporter...
...Unless you had a particular anchor in Cambridge, you wouldn't decide to come here with such high rents," Hines says. She says that though the amount the city spends on human services--$44 million, including $39 million for health and hospitals--has increased in the last year, the rise represents a five-year trend and cannot be attributed to any major influx of immigrants...