Word: boys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mondale and Carter staffs have merged smoothly. Asked how the blending was proceeding, Campaign Manager Jordan replies with a good ol' boy grin: "You should ask Dick Moe [Mondale's top aide] about that. He's down getting my shoes shined right...
...industry and in military and space programs"; regulating the weight and speed of cars to reduce fuel consumption. He insists that he has not stirred much attention because national press coverage has been niggardly. Says he: "We deserve at least as much attention as Walter Cronkite gave to the boy he thought for two days had been raised by apes...
...L.A.P.D. reports that hypnosis has been used in some 70 cases. In one, a woman who had been high on drugs and alcohol at the time could recall no details of the murder of her boy friend, which she had witnessed. Figuring that her perceptions would be "similar to pictures taken by a camera lens with gauze over it," Reiser was dubious about trying hypnosis. He was wrong. In her trance the woman unerringly ticked off the killer's physical features and his clothing-right down to the stripes in his pants and the dots...
...ancient and honorable of movie armaments, the custard pie. He also recruits Bugsy to furnish a little brawn and some badly needed brains. Bugsy, however, is frequently absent from duty, since he has taken to managing a heavyweight prizefighter named Leroy (Paul Murphy). Bugsy has high hopes that his boy's fistic skills will help raise a stake to take Blousey to Tinseltown...
Mummified Hands. Crosby was a minor figure in the literary '20s, and if he had not written his own gaudy death scene he would be disremembered now as a spoiled rich boy who gave good parties and wrote bad poetry. He worked very hard at literature, after he discovered it, and raised the level of his poems from wretched to mediocre. But he had no gift for language, and he was trapped in the modish but sterile conviction that if he clothed his mind in the rags of madness, he would become a seer...