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...just a regular Joe, see, just a working stiff with a missus who likes her fiction cheap. She doesn't have her nose stuck in a thriller, she's not happy. So one day she sees an ad for a mystery weekend. You go to some dive and they fake a murder and you try to solve the case. A snap, she says to me, a downhill roll. She should live so long...
...Southern-lady accent) I relied on the kindness of strangers. So then I auditioned and got a scholarship to the Alvin Ailey school. I wasn't worried about not getting anywhere as a dancer. I knew I was a decent dancer. It was great. I moved from one dive to the next, I was poor. I lived on popcorn, that's why I still love it. Popcorn is cheap and it fills...
Historians say that that meet, held in nearby Quincy, included over 27 airplanes, a dirigible, and several man-carrying kites. These entries participated in a precision flying competition, altitude and distance competitions, and a dive-bombing contest. The largest prize, of $10,000, went to a British aviator who flew a race at an average speed of about 58 miles per hour...
...field and the rink. Goodman's debt to The Great Gatsby is manifest: his narrator, Jeb Runcible, regards his classmate much as Nick Carraway viewed Jay Gatsby. But the author's voice is his own, and as Jeb becomes progressively disenchanted, the golden pilot goes into a nose dive, changing from superhero in goggles to another classic American archetype: the perennial juvenile. Whole histories of the Lost Generation have revealed less; this is a novel that uses adventure to disguise a subtext of apprehension...
...publicly confirm it, the U.S. joined the battle to rein in the dollar. Said a senior Administration official: "We spent tens of millions and the Europeans spent hundreds." By Wednesday afternoon the banks had unloaded at least $1.5 billion and sent the high-flying dollar into a nose dive. It dropped 4% compared with the mark and franc and 6% against the British pound. Even Queen Elizabeth II seemed stunned by the pound's sudden swings. Said she: "It all happens so frightfully quickly...