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...about the party Chapman threw to come out about his homosexuality and to which he invited his nearest and dearest, including his girlfriend - get stale after the third telling. And it's hard to imagine the show would have lasted four seasons had it been called Bunn, Wackett, Buzzard, Stubble and Boot, since you are fed up before the end of the chapter with reading that it might have been. The saving grace of Autobiography is that it's a handsome beast of a coffee-table book. The special edition comes with snap-on legs and a set of crockery...
...leggy Ms. Mariah; 2) signing Michael Jackson to Sony Records for an obscene amount of money (since which time, due to various factors, Jackson's sales have declined steadily); 3) being mentioned in the first line of the wonderfully tacky disco hit "Cherchez la Femme" (1976) by Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band...
That is not the way it works, especially when so many of today's good, unknown writers can't get a first novel published. Besides, seeking sympathy from a book reviewer is like asking a buzzard to have table manners...
...began to mount. During the mid-1980s, Colborn learned, mortality rates for alligator eggs in Lake Apopka, Florida, soared to 96%, in contrast to 57% in most Florida lakes. The almost certain cause: a 1980 chemical spill that included DDT. In 1993 researchers found that terns in PCB-contaminated Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts, had reproductive-tract abnormalities including the presence of ovarian cells in male birds. Earlier studies had found similar problems with birds in California and the upper Midwest...
...heavy first number blends into the even heavier "Dirt in the Ground." Waits' reflection on death is original and, despite the depressing topic, exhilirating to listen to: "The quill from a buzzard/ The blood writes the word/ I want to know am I the sky/ Or a bird/Cause hell is boiling over/And heaven is full/We're chained to the world/And we all gotta pull/And we're all gonna be/...Just dirt in the ground...