Word: eared
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...rural Illinois a man murdered his best friend and cut off his ear with a razor, a symbolic execution. The murdered man was sleeping with the killer's wife, who had left her husband and taken the children. In divorce court, where she denied her adultery, she was awarded all her husband's money, leaving him with nothing but sorrow and rage. All night he hid out near the barn, and when his best friend came to do the milking, he shot him point-blank. Then he weighted himself down, waded into the river and put a bullet...
...said by a knowledgeable source to be talking to the President monthly. Clinton has recently dismissed some Morrisiana as worthless--but he often did that during Dick's heyday. Nevertheless, by constantly giving advice to Clinton on TV, as well as hinting that he occasionally has the President's ear, Morris is helping to rehabilitate himself. "He's got something to say," notes one White House aide, and "he's so manipulatively suggestive about his contacts with us" that he may just be turning the appearance of influence into some measure of the real thing...
...time has come, your honor. This year, the season of 1997, the Seattle Mariners are beginning a period that will turn the annals of Seattle sports history on its ear. Gone are the days of Kingdome attendance falling under 10,000. Gone are the playoff months spent watching the 'real' teams battle it out." Somewhere the theme from 'Rocky' has begun playing, slowly increasing in volume... "Two years ago the Mariners' first playoff run gave the city a newfound yearning for the hardware, the Kingdome was transformed from a concrete mausoleum into a thundering homefield advantage...
...hear a ghostly theremin whistling in our inner ear. So a warning: don't infer too much from the connection of cults and culture. For most folks, The X-Files is not the Bible, it's a bedtime story. Only 39 people chose to rev the once-upon-a-mind of sci-fi into revelation; only 39 took their jumble of theological and televisionary lore to beds from which they never awoke. At least, we think they didn't hitch a ride on that UFO. Unless...maybe...
...whose very name spurs some directors to spit venom. Noyce walked outside and into a dark street, then became aware of someone following him. "I stopped in a doorway and looked over my shoulder, but no one was there. Suddenly, Val materialized right behind me and whispered in my ear, 'Are you looking for someone...