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...been good for the Chicks. Their albums were top sellers, and six weeks before Shepherd?s Bush they had performed at the Super Bowl. But it got bad, and then ugly, in a hurry. The "ashamed" aside soured and angered their conservative fans. Not since 1958, when Jerry Lee Lewis mentioned during a tour of England that he had married his 13-year-old second cousin, had a country act returned from London in such disgrace...
...actually a very charming, insightful writer. Instead of obsessing about the Streak, he explores the wider subculture of trivia. He goes to Stevens Point, Wis., for its annual town-wide 54-hr. trivia marathon. He hits trivia night in a Boston bar and kibitzes at a college quiz-bowl championship. He exhumes such trivia titans of yesteryear as John Timbs, the author of the 1856 best seller Things Not Generally Known, and Ruth Horowitz, the rebus-solving legend who dominated 20 straight episodes of Concentration in 1966. And of course Jennings gives us all the nerd-on-nerd action from...
...that Charles Bronson was the only member of both The Magnificent Seven and The Dirty Dozen. There's something touching about the world of trivia. It's a place where minutiae have a paradoxical grandeur and no fact is meaningless. Or as the coach of Carleton's quiz-bowl team puts it, "Everything's going to be worth 10 points someday...
...bright green handles are more germ resistant and come with flushing instructions on the wall. But Phillips admitted there may be a gray area between solid and liquid waste. “What happens with the 1.1 gallons—it tends to displace the contents of the bowl rather than force the contents down the waste-pipe,” Phillips said. “You might be able to get away with a small amount of toilet paper. If you think about women who are going to use it, it will probably take care of that small amount...
...Washington (CREW), a non-profit watchdog group. "Abramoff has said that Burns and his staff used Signatures [Abramoff's restaurant] like their cafeteria. And Burns took a number of legislative actions on Abramoff's behalf, even as members of his staff went on trip to the 2001 Super Bowl on private jet and visited Sun Cruise gambling ships, which were partly owned by Abramoff. "Abramoff himself said in an interview earlier this year, "Every appropriation we wanted [from Burns's committee] we got. Our staffs were as close as they could be. They practically used Signatures as their cafeteria...