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...superior goofball plot, raffish cast and zany sex scenes (a critical test for a humorist) make this the funniest of Buckley's books. The style alternates between Saturday Night Live and Raymond Chandler: "A tsunami-sized wave of nausea rolled through him. Nick's eyes went groggily back to Monmaney, who was peering at him without sympathy. Yes, a real killer, this one, looked like he flossed with piano wire...
Simpson remained in seclusion, visited by friends like Jermaine Jackson, ( Dionne Warwick and former U.S.C. football teammate Bob Chandler. He did attend Nicole's wake on Wednesday and funeral mass on Thursday at St. Martin of Tours Roman Catholic Church; he was treated as a mourner, not a murderer. Friends who talked to Simpson last week said he was distraught. Said movie agent Jack Gilardi, who has represented the ex-footballer for 21 years: "He could hardly talk. He was in tears and everything...
...1950s and '60s, when special interests fished for congressional votes with envelopes of cash. "It was a common practice in those days for a lobbyist to come to a member of Congress and hand him an envelope and say, 'Here, this is for your campaign,' says former Representative Rod Chandler, a Washington Republican. "It was a nod-and-a-wink thing. 'If you use it on your campaign, fine. If not, that's up to you.' Nothing even approaching that happens anymore...
...Schumer, the authors of the assault-weapons ban. "We knew it would take a lot to change the Congressman's mind, but we thought if we could just get all the information on these guns to him, we might be able to do it," says Feinstein press secretary Bill Chandler. Still, Feinstein did not feel comfortable enough to cold call Hyde. Illinois Senator Paul Simon was enlisted as intermediary...
...section leaders point to grossunderestimations. For example, Moral Reasoning 40initially hired enough TFs for 200 students, butended up drawing nearly 500, says head TFChristopher Chandler...