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...international lacrosse community now knows, Francesca DenHartog did more than just survive that backyard practice session...
Which is better, a hamburger cooked on a griddle or one broiled over a flame? The question sounds like a backyard debating topic for a summer afternoon. Yet business has been slow of late in the $35 billion fast-food industry, and last week the issue had burgerdom's three leviathans in a sizzle. Tempers flared when the Burger King Corp. of Miami, the nation's second largest fast-food restaurant chain (3,500 outlets, $2.3 billion in 1981 sales), launched a provocative $19 million network television ad blitz designed both to grab off a bite...
...bejeweled lady was so overcome by the intoxicating music that she pitched backward into the laps of the unflappable listeners behind her. Richard Wagner, who caused all the excitement, rested peacefully in his grave behind his villa Wahnfried, buried, in the phrase of one astonished British tourist, "in the backyard, sir, like a dog." Bayreuth has seen everything...
...just cry, you're going to be better afterwards.' " The Falklanders have been far less resourceful, even somewhat helpless, in coping with the arrival of the British forces. The soldiers have filled nearly every house in town up to the attic, drying their uniforms across backyard clotheslines...
...could be observed and mimicked. Other television children were passive; problems happened to them. Beaver actively courted trouble. He brought home live snakes, fell into a steaming billboard soup bowl, and cut his own hair so that he resembled a precursor of punkdom. Beaver was not streetwise, he was backyard-wise. He was good, but never goody-goody. In his mind, he was guilty until proved innocent...