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...Prairie Home Cemetery to talk to the dead about the old country. Keillor's folk confront mainstream America with beer and trembling. They are still wagging their heads and clucking their tongues over Father Emil's summer replacement. Golfing Father Frank proclaims of his martini at a backyard party, "Dry. Mmmmm. What did you do? Just think about vermouth, for Christ's sake...
Finding a replacement is simply out of the question for Pee Wee. This bike is to important that Pee Wee keeps it hidden away in a secret compartment of his backyard; and when he takes it out, he locks it up with enough chain to secure the Statue of Liberty...
...church member, Richard M Sawyer '46, said after the decision. "It's just like the old case of everybody wants a prison, but nobody wants it in their backyard...
...Cambridge City Councilor, indignant over this veiled form of discrimination toward the homeless in his own backyard, lashed out at his neighbors in a recent confrontation. "We're not talking about getting rid of toxic waste dumps here," he said. "We're talking about human beings...
...become still more competitive with IBM in its backyard of computers, the telephone company is expected by industry analysts to go shopping for a major acquisition of its own. Among the most frequently discussed possible targets are several prominent data-processing firms. They include Digital Equipment, the second-largest maker of computers, and Amdahl, a manufacturer of mainframe machines...