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...were stranded and honeymoons and business meetings missed. Among the made-for-TV stories that emerged: passengers on nine JetBlue flights were held on the icy tarmac at John F. Kennedy Airport - some for more than 10 hours - with little more than a bit of snack food and some fetid latrines for company...
However, Spitz stylistically redeems himself with his incredible ability to set a scene. He describes one of the clubs the band played at in their early years as being a “filthy, sweltering, fetid, claustrophobic little firetrap of a club. The walls and ceiling sweated absolute humidity; there was no exit aside from the main entrance…an ersatz ventilation pipe had been installed as a concession to the public health department.” How Spitz found out about a 40-year-old ersatz ventilation pipe that probably is no longer in existence is far beyond...
...course, the bloggers of Yearly Kos have a ways to go before they are either as feted (or as fetid) as they believe mainstream journalists to be. And as seriously as they seemed to take the conference, they don't take themselves as seriously as mainstream journalists do, either. On the conference's last day, someone brought an industrial roll of aluminum foil and dozens of attendees spent the afternoon walking around in elaborate tin-foil hats. If Judy Miller of the New York Times had thought to pack along a similar prop when she was embedded in Iraq...
...turned out that the school bus had broken down. Happily, the trip was salvaged when a generous and fast-thinking mother called a car service. So, yes: where huddled masses had once arrived in cramped, fetid steamships, my daughter and her classmates were now rolling up in limos with...
...military. But the Bush Administration harbors a gossamer strand of hope that the Dec. 15 election will finally produce a strong Iraqi government, a real coalition of Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds. The Administration also realizes it may take a supremely oleaginous political thug, perhaps someone as rare and fetid as Ahmad Chalabi, to bring...