Word: bunchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another official, who asked not to be identified, called Meselson's allegation that sufficient controls did not been done in the government investigation of samples of leaves, rocks, or blood containing mycotoxins "a bunch of bullshit...
...image. The tattoos, beards and beer bellies are still there, but the bikers have softened their death's-head emblem and dropped kinky regalia like decorative wings denoting various sexual feats. Says Johnson: "The Angels are 25 years ahead of other gangs. They went from a loose-knit bunch of guys to an organized crime family...
...local Organized Crime Strike Force for going after "little fish." When the agents went after Big Fish Claiborne, they looked into reports that he had once used a private detective to bug illegally the home of a former girlfriend, but a grand jury failed to indict the judge. "A bunch of crooks out to destroy Nevada," said Claiborne of the investigators...
Well Converse does, but in a singularly unconvincing, uninspired and unexciting way. Oh yeah, he has a rough time doing it--captured by an insane bunch of women who survived the Nazi reign of terror who think he's a traitor to them or running into a whole bunch of killers from Aquitaine on trains. But the rough times are just there to add space, not inventive or surprising plot twists, to the very long (647 pages) book. The problem is that we already know what the conspiracy is, and somehow, the rough times seem like parodies of better Ludlum...
...both free and faithful to the story, and with considerably more brio than was displayed in the lamentable screen adaptation of Irving's previous book, the wondrous The World According to Garp. As in the synopsis-defying novel, the Berry family muddles through the mismanagement of a bunch of hotels, half a dozen dalliances and more than any family's rightful share of abrupt deaths. Trouble is, both the film and the characters are as preposterously buoyant as the giant balloon animals in a Thanksgiving Day parade. They rarely touch the earth, which makes it hard for them...