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...more than any other gossipist, invented the modern celebrity industry. His syndicated "colyums" and brassy, red-baiting broadcasts to "Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea" shaped U.S. lowbrow culture for the 1930s and '40s. When he died unlamented in 1972, Winchell was a lonely and bilious has-been, still clinging to the shabby remnants of his column...
...April enough of a microorganism got through treatment plants in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to turn the city's drinking water into a bilious brew, sickening nearly half the population and killing one person -- and a few weeks ago, the same bug turned up again during a routine test. In July residents in the Chelsea section of New York City had to boil their water to kill potentially dangerous bacteria. Just three weeks ago, health officials tacked warnings on 71 houses in Gastonia, North Carolina, advising people that an industrial chemical had been detected in their wells at levels many times higher...
Then he scares you witless. Here come a nosy tyrannosaur and a fan-faced, bilious dilophosaur. Nastiest of all are the velociraptors, smart, relentless punks in packs -- Saurz N the Hood. They have a special appetite for kids, just like the great white shark in the movie that made Spielberg's rep. Now it has some worthy successors: primeval creatures with personality and a lot of bite. Jurassic Park is the true Jaws...
...STRUCTURING of race issues is equally deceptive. There is a constant drumbeat, especially from Republicans, that personal racism is dead. Long live self-help! Even the bilious Strom Thurmond, former segregationist, wrapped himself in the Thomas flag. Public outcry against racism today amounts to scare headlines about incidents like Crown Heights or Bensonhurst, blown up larger than life, and declaimed: "This is terrible. We must eliminate...
Following the reading, DelBanco discussed with the audience the process of writing and rewriting the story. "I spent less time on the blithe action of construction than on the bilious act of reconstruction," the author said...