Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven AM stations owned by the American Broadcasting Cos. have already made the change to chatter. KABC, WABC's California cousin, has been talking away for 22 years, the last eight as the No. 1-rated station in Los Angeles. "It's just a reflection of the times," commented KABC Program Director Wally Sherwin. "People have an insatiable hunger for information...
...when Mason retains Corde's cousin. Maxie ("I leshie Maxie") Detillion as Ebry's lawyer--Maxie, who swindled Corde and then played the hurt one ("Yes, thought Corde, and because he conned me down in Joliet and screwed me up in Chicago, he is, by his logic, the injured party. That's how it works. You swindle a man and then grab even the sense of injury for yourself. A devouring man devours all there is."), porcine Maxie of the sexual deviations ("if he should every be elected to office, he wouldn't put his hand on a Bible...
Perhaps most ominous, the administration is seriously considering "solving" the waste problem by using waste plutonium from the civilian reactor program to make nuclear weapons. This measure would shatter once and for all the convenient fiction of an "Atoma for Peace" program completely distinct from its more sinister cousin, the military...
...casual reader of these essays who thinks he is strolling down the garden path of English whimsy will soon find his heels being nipped by demons. Like the Irish country house of Cousin Ursula, the Warner world is haunted. Exotic objects like an old sedan chair mysteriously move themselves about at night. Can it all be explained by muscular rats...
...much ideas as their loudmouthed idiot cousin -publicity-that helped soften the verdict. It began to seem that it was not Abbott and his admitted homicide that were on trial but, in a vague and sloppy way, the entire American criminal justice system. The jury decided that the system had just been too much for Abbott. So the verdict was manslaughter. Abbott had been acting, the jury decided, under "extreme emotional disturbance." Sentencing comes next month. A judge of Solomonic gifts might condemn Abbott and Mailer to be shackled together with molybdenum chains, inseparable ever after, like Tony Curtis...