Word: barstools
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...party's still not over. Another crank-warped week has passed; another Friday night has rolled around; and though she's thinner, paler and less coherent, she's feeling considerably richer owing to the arrival this morning of her monthly child-support check. Swaying nautically on her favorite barstool, she reports that she has made some changes in her life in the past few days. She's moved out of her parents' place, leaving her daughter behind, and has taken up residence in a rented house with two male roommates who share her taste for meth and, unlike her family...
...first of the Avon Publishing pair, Macho Meditations, was created by the late-night barstool contemplation of two south Boston residents dubbed "Ralph" and "Reggie." The book itself contains a full year's worth of quotes-a-day and meditations to go with them, ranging from blatantly chauvinistic to intellectually contemplative to just-plain sentimental...
Leonard's chief adviser is a fine comic creation, an American named Glass, who sees a spy lurking on every barstool. On one pub crawl, they meet a pretty German divorcee named Maria, and she and Leonard begin an idyllic affair in which they make up their own rules of behavior. But one night, for reasons quite obscure to him, he acts sadistically, and their romance becomes more conventional...
Lawmen guess Dallas hightailed it back to Paradise Hill, a one-blink junction in northern Nevada. Bloodhounds tracked his scent to a barstool, then to an unmade bed in a nearby trailer and finally to an abrupt end at Highway 95. Though every waitress and cowhand between Boise and Reno seems to know Dallas, no one admits spotting him since the jailbreak...
...Blanche reported afterward. "The present was a fragmentation grenade." The gunman, a veteran killer who seemed to be losing his nerve after years of firefights in the shattered city, took back the grenade and proceeded to place it between the legs of a Lebanese official sitting on a barstool. As he laughed, the unsuspecting fellow spilled his drink, then fell off the stool. "The barman closed up early," wrote Blanche. "Grenades are bad for business...