Word: crash
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Located in Cambridge, just adjacent to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and owned by close Clinton friend Richard Friedman—who has also donated many thousands to the party—the Charles seemed like the natural place for very important Democrats to crash for the week...
...hatch each day's game plan. There, sitting side by side, Stutchbury and Mitchell quiz the editors of the sport, business, arts and world pages on their strongest yarns. Then Whittaker runs through a list of 36 news stories offered by bureau chiefs around the country. Some stories will crash during the day, others will blossom and some will need more time. And one may become the splash, the main page-one news story, which is at the heart of each day's urgency. Conversation rattles around the table. Someone's heard unfavorable comments from sources about Labor's standing...
...jolted open every few seconds by the shock of manufactured cleavage, they are offering me a beer. Not even a light beer. All I wanted was to see a nice Cirque du Soleil show, work my expense account at Le Cirque with my only famous friend, Robert Goulet, and crash at the new hotel at Mandalay Bay, where my standard room has two bathrooms and three flat-screen TVs. But New Vegas won't let me be. It needs to show me what a great time it's having, with its supersized, sanitized, non-intimidating version of the same sins...
...bass pumping, my eyes jolted open every few seconds by the shock of manufactured cleavage, they are offering me a beer. All I wanted was to see a nice Cirque du Soleil show, work my expense account at Le Cirque with my only famous friend, Robert Goulet, and crash at the new hotel at Mandalay Bay, where my standard room has two bathrooms and three flat-screen TVs. But New Vegas won't let me be. It needs to show me what a great time it's having, with its supersized, sanitized, nonintimidating version of the same sins...
Bank robbing wasn't an exact science in 1933, and watching the bad guys figure it out as they go along makes for nonstop comedy. They flood their engines, shoot themselves, crash their cars and steal sacks of mail instead of money. Once, John Dillinger discovered that his wheelman had parallel parked the getaway car; he had to make an Austin Powers--style multipoint turn before he could peel out. The G-men weren't much better. The FBI was staffed by bumbling college kids and led by a raccoon-eyed, sexually ambiguous desk jockey named J. Edgar Hoover...