Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series of asinine murder plots that they botch through sheer stupidity. You've seen it all before. The poisonous snake that turns out to be harmless. The failure to drown her in a birdbath. The leaky casket, cast out to sea, that deposits her unharmed on a beach, still in a fog. Drawn as close as possible to the rich-broad stereotype, she's as deficient in human skills as they are: not only can't she cook, but she can't refuse sex to men she doesn't like and can't even muster the intelligence...
...Georgetown jetsam before it reaches the curb. The State Department, however, announced that Nancy was "anguished" and the Secretary "really revolted." The home-town Washington Post decried Gourley's trash-can investigation as "indefensible-both as journalistic-practice and as civilized behavior." Later in the week a Palm Beach, Fla., Post reporter pawed through garbage bins at the National Enquirer's headquarters in nearby Lantana and came up with a revealing two-year-old memo from Publisher Generoso Pope Jr. exhorting his troops: "Prod, push and probe the main characters in the story. Help them frame their answers...
...stock formula has hit home to a lot of losers and tickled a lot of losers-watchers, but when you get right down to it, it's a pretty thin joke. There are only so many laughs to the 98-pound weakling dilemma, whether it's set at muscle beach or Martinique. And it is where Allen scrapes the dregs of slapstick gags that he is at his weakest. When Boris Grushenko, "the young coward all St. Pete is talking about," fumbles through basic training like a moldy replay of Modern Times, and bearing a suspicious resemblance to certain scenes...
...continues to pay staff members even less than smaller local papers do, an issue that drove the Guild to strike in the first place. Thus a reporter who earns $229 a week on the Her aid-Examiner (circ. 419,000) could make $298 a week on the nearby Long Beach Independent and Press-Telegram (combined circ. 151,000). The strikebreakers are not permitted to join the Guild as long as the original strike continues, so this year they petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to have their own group, Employees for Better Working Conditions, designated as the paper...
Elton's beat constantly punctuates Taupin's lyrical line in arresting ways. There is a curious blend of sophistication and primitivism in Elton's assertive piano style that makes it an instantly recognizable musical signature-as unmistakable in its way as a Beach Boys harmony or Joe Cocker's sandpaper rasp. Elton's own voice is a supple instrument. He can growl like Mick Jagger or sing an insinuating lyric plaint. He writes for himselfnot surprisingly with supreme correctness, confidence, even elegance. To an unusual degree, he is the only...