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...call from Ms. Currie at about 11 a.m. that day, inviting her to come to the White House at about 1 p.m. Ms. Lewinsky arrived wearing a straw hat with the hat pin the President had given her, and bringing gifts for him, including a puzzle and a Banana Republic shirt. She gave him the gifts in the dining room and they moved to the area of the study...
...show started a half-hour late and the crowd waited patiently. Slouching in comfortable couches or standing around smoking cigarettes, the audience could easily be separated into Cale and Siouxsie fans based on appearance alone. The bearded middle-aged crowd, interspersed with people wearing shirts featuring Warhol's banana illustration from the classic Velvet Underground album, were clear examples of the former. Teens dressed in black and sporting piercings through brows, eyes and necks were the most obvious examples of the latter. The older audience had come to see Cale; the punks and the goths came for Siouxsie...
Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea Son of a Son of a Sailor John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath Banana Wind William Styron A Tidewater Morning Floridays Irving Wallace The Twenty-Seventh Wife Don't Stop the Carnival Dr. Seuss Oh, the Places You'll Go! You Had to Be There...
...Park Fair, TLG lures mall rats to its laboratory, often rewarding them with cash or food. Once there, they might sit in the focus rooms and chew gum for hours to test new flavors, or they might examine a fleet of new banana-seat bicycles and comment on the colors and styles. All the while, clients can view the testing through two-way mirrors. For one test, 35 children came in to sample 34 different juices. Hey, it pays to go to the experts...
...between, you get a pensive McQueen proving that he could really act and a young and fanatical Richard Crenna proving why he could have been a contender but wound up second banana to Stallone in the Rambo canon. (And, disappointingly, Candice Bergen as the love interest, to whose acting the cheap-shot term "wooden" truly does apply.) A bit of a plodder, but plenty of powerful stuff. The short happy life of Po-hang, a year before Cool Hand Luke, will tear your heart...