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Local nightclub owners have mixed reactions to the proposed bill. "I think the bill is a bunch of baloney anyway," Patrick T. Lyons, general manager and director of public relations at the discotheque Boston-Boston, said yesterday. He added that if legislators hope the bill will get drinking teenagers off the highways, the bill will fail because it will force teenagers to drive to neighboring states where the drinking age is 18 to get liquor...
...assurance to Columnist Robert Novak that China did not intend to lower Taiwan's standard of living after reunification. Said one: "We don't believe a word Teng says. He's a shrewd man, but what he is saying is just baloney." Added another: "Don't believe what Peking says. We know its ultimate aim is to destroy...
...have sold more than 100,000 copies each. To Roland Barthes, a leading French writer-philosopher, Bretécher is "the best French sociologist." Nouvel Observateur Editor Jean Daniel calls her "the servant of Molière." Bretécher would answer such praise with her favorite epithet, "bidon" baloney...
...Francisco to promote her book. That task must trouble the satirist without an ideology. "Comic strips are a form of con," she confesses. "All you do is play along with something that works, and suddenly people are asking for your opinions on everything. It's all baloney." Could be, but she does slice it with undeniable flair...
State Rep. John A. Businger, who participated in the demonstration, yesterday called Bok's refusal to meet with the power plant opponents "unacceptable baloney...