Word: bags
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...local chapter of Women, Infants and Children (WIC) gives Ocon coupons that she can trade in at area grocery stores for bread, milk, cereal and cheese. And St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church charges Ocon $1 in return for a bag of groceries...
...self-styled "professional revolutionary," Carlos managed to evade Western security services for 21 years. The Jackal (so named by a journalist who found a copy of Frederick Forsyth's "Day of the Jackal" in his abandoned bag) is alleged to have committed at least 20 spectacular terrorist attacks ? and caused more than 80 deaths...
...self-styled "professional revolutionary," Carlos managed to evade Western security services for 21 years. The Jackal (so named by a journalist who found a copy of Fredrick Forsyth's "Day of the Jackal" in his abandoned bag) is alleged to have committed at least 20 spectacular terrorist attacks ? and caused more than 80 deaths...
Plays Well's generous burden is redundancy. Like Mims, Gurganus has a native connection to North Carolina and the windy school of Southern writing. But unlike many of its more portentous graduates, he grounds catastrophe with humor. A shopping bag full of sex toys splits open on a crowded subway. A whimsical riff describes heaven as a polymorphous playground where Emily Dickinson is one of the few chaste holdouts. Elsewhere too, Gurganus puts a lot of buck-and-wing into what his fictional half calls a "Comedy of this shuffle toward the crypt...
...usually easy, most checkers concur, if students keep their cards handy and are not digging through their Kenneth Cole Reaction tote bag at the last minute. "Sometimes kids try to sneak in with no card," laments Lorena Vicente of Annenberg, on duty for breakfast, "and then we have to go after the kids." Checkers would normally get in trouble for allowing an un-swiped student to pass by, but Vicente says, "I usually don't like to [chase after a student], but we have to--especially if the bosses are around...