Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Waffle House coffeeshop on Gloster Street, Jerry Rice groans, "I think there're a lot of people like me who just can't believe these guys are still running around in sheets. This is 1978." Walter Christian, a local insurance man, grumbles, "Why did they pick Saturday, anyway? Saturday is our busiest shopping day." Most people have a deeper fear. They are pretty sure there will be a shooting. "Life is cheaper down here than in the North," says Mel Blatt, who migrated to Mississippi from New York a few years back. "You don't have...
...features amazingly low-priced standard Mexican fare; unfortunately, the folks at La Pinata just went too far in trading off quality ingredients to get low prices. They may attract a lot of newcomers with those low prices, but we doubt many return. If you feel like checking it out anyway, just remember the words of someone we passed on the restaurant's stairs--"Stay away from the refrites, they could be repeatees." We didn't heed their advice. And we paid...
...final stretch, Eli cox Guy Gregoire failed to see a navigational buoy, which quickly chewed up the oar of number seven man Al Lawn. While Lawn was jumping overboard with the useless oar, Yale quickly lost its comfortable margin (and would have been disqualified by Lawn's swim anyway) to the surging Crimson...
...anguish of living memory that all sense of trust has been eradicated. Many Jews today are tormented by the past, troubled by the present, fearful of survival in the future. Asked about the occupation, they respond that it is benign, that the Palestinians never had it so good, that anyway Israel would not be an occupier if the Arabs had not compelled it to fight. In the end, they ignore the problem. They turn their eyes from Palestinian troubles and finally talk about something else. A history of four wars, of almost daily terrorism, of hatred and struggle, has become...
...achieves a life of its own. While a Tiny Tim or a Judith Exner may flare and fade, others acquire a strange permanence-or its illusion, which is of course just as good. They have been transported into another medium where information and images are permanently (or for years, anyway) stored. In the formula of Historian Daniel Boorstin, they have "become well known for being well known." A classic of the category is, say, Elizabeth Taylor. Who, outside of her family and friends, would have the slightest interest in her were she not phosphorescent in her sheer famousness...