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Rowers in this weekend's Head of the Charles Regatta will compete in the cleanest river in the event's history, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced earlier this week...
...club (4), but buying cigars at the Havana Trading Co. (5) could be politically sensitive, and the town has--horrors!--no McDonald's. Chelsea can pop into Hairtique (6) or Yankee Clipper (7) for a new do, or she can water-ski on Skaneateles' finger lake (8)--supposedly the cleanest in the continental U.S. Alas, the town's short- and fat-man race is no more. But if the town gets too much, Syracuse--which has more voters--is just 19 miles away...
...want the cleanest, most direct, simplest, most expressive possible language. The violence of the language is directly tailored to the violence of the story that I am telling. I love the American idiom, I love profane American language, I love Yiddish, I love racist argot, I love this whole obscene potpourri of the American tongue, and I love putting it into my books...
Mobil spent millions of dollars trying to convince us that it had the cleanest gasoline, one that made your engine run smoother. Union Camp spent millions of dollars trying to convince us that it had the cleanest paper, Great White, that made your copier run smoother. In the end, few consumers were willing to pay more for a particular brand of either common commodity--gasoline or plain white paper. Now both companies are succumbing to longtime rivals, Exxon and International Paper, in deals that were unthinkable just a short time ago. Suddenly, neither Mobil nor Union Camp could be assured...
...Sisco is a slightly suspect agent, Clooney is the cleanest-living, most personable criminal in cinematic history, the thief in the gray flannel suit, a gentleman and a robber. He steals because that's the way he was brought up, you understand, and it's implied that he only robs because the world treats him badly, or only if he knows a really bad guy with some really good loot. A real Robin Hood, Foley. He's a thief with lots of honor who falls hard once he meets a good woman, even after she shoots...