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These guys stand at a stop light where the trucks pass, and when one stops they step up to the driver's side and shove a piece in his ear and tell him to get down on the floor unless he wants his brains blown out. The driver, not being willing to die for dear old Texaco, does what he is told, and a plastic bag is yanked over his head to help keep him quiet. These guys prefer unmarked trucks because, say, a Mobil truck pulling up to an Exxon station might draw the attention of a prowl...
...made their attitude clear. The Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini announced that he would not meet with Waldheim. Said Khomeini: "I do not trust this man." The militants holding the U.S. embassy also said they would not talk with him. Only Foreign Minister Ghotbzadeh, who has neither the Ayatullah's ear nor the students' respect, was willing to meet with the Secretary-General, but not to bargain over the hostages. Said Ghotbzadeh: "He can come here and be informed of our views. The matter of negotiation is not an issue...
...little more than embarassing, then, to reveal that Justice Brennan cast his vote using the "limp dick standard" or that "for White, no erections and no insertions equaled no obscenity." The Post's crosstown rival, The Washington Star, has long boasted of its breathless gossip column, The Ear. Woodward and Armstrong supply some strong hardbound competition in parts of their book...
...late '30s and early '40s is pastiche of one sort or another: a heavy line, now dogmatic, now uncertain, grinding across the paper, paying its digestive homages to Picasso, Gonzalez, constructivism generally and, rather surprisingly, to the bonelike figures of Moore and Arp. One of the ear lier drawings is a hole-in-the-head figure clearly derived from Moore, whose own interest in totems would presently be assimilated, to new effect, into Smith's work...
...agents got wind of the Sandia operation when they tapped the telephone of Robert McGuire, described in a police affidavit as a "known gambler and bookie." A remarkable message was transmitted from McGuire's phone at 6:39 p.m. on Oct. 11. No voice spoke and no ear listened: the electronically encoded message was sent by a portable terminal and it was received by a computer at Sandia. The information conveyed: data about gambling...