Word: crews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ancient Rome--with a few side rips to Egypt--makes terrific fodder for Pudding material. If all else fails, after all, you can throw in a Roman numeral joke: "Take V," the taskmaster tells his crew. Or a hieroglyphic joke "Feather before squiggly line except after bird...
Herne's hard work did not go unrewarded. At the first opportunity he got off the slime line and joined the "Dock Crew," where, instead, of cutting and gutting fish, he shoveled ice on the incoming loads of salmon. His first day, "They worked [him] as hard as they could," but Herne says he kept going. He would do "anything to leave the slime line...
...Luciano Pavarotti competed to see which could arrive later for a dress rehearsal. Battle has a penchant for changing hotel suites in the middle of a stay just to vary the color of her surroundings. After her appearances at the San Francisco Opera this season, the backstage crew sported T shirts that read: I SURVIVED THE BATTLE...
When Time's Winter Olympics reporting crew arrived in Norway, news-desk editor Susanna Schrobsdorff recalls, "the Lillehammer organizing committee told us, 'There is no bad weather, just bad clothing.' " Schrobsdorff still thinks there may be more to it than that. Norwegians, she says, "are quite capable of chatting outside in -4 degrees F temperatures for hours, wearing their elegant gray-wool and elk-skin coats unbuttoned while we freeze in high- tech winter getups...
...Each sample then produces several vials of semen, which are sold to infertile couples for $135-$165 each/ Vials can be ordered by catalog, using a toll-free number, and are shipped overnight. Indeed, ordering sperm from the Cryobank isn't all that different from ordering clothes from J. Crew...