Word: flexed
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Sometimes even small guys like to flex their muscles. Nick Evans, owner of Spartan Communications, a CBS affiliate, was miffed when some advertiser-friends of his had trouble getting into the Late Show with DAVID LETTERMAN. Seats were found for them eventually but apparently not fast enough. Evans yanked the show off the air for a week on the six stations he runs because of "the arrogance of the Letterman organization and the weak ratings," he says. Viewers were treated instead to infomercials, reruns of Married...with Children and Judge Judy. Perhaps that's why a local lawyer filed...
...meaning in 28-year-old Michael Byers' debut collection of evocative short stories about unfulfilled longings and lives around the fog-shrouded Seattle shore. A Truman Capote fellow in the Wallace Stegner Fellowship program at Stanford University, Byers himself transmutes into the characters of his creation by an impressive flex of his literary muscles...
...compromised, laughing stock president limping through the next two years is better than the alternative, the reasoning goes. Who wants to give Al Gore a two-year free trial to flex his Presidential muscles? "For us it's better if this thing drags on for a while," one GOP staff member joked last week. "At least we don't have to come up with an agenda...
...pager to your belt, the new $130 Beepwear offers a choice between a silent flashing alarm or an audio tone to signal incoming pages. Right now, only the California Good Guys chain is selling the Beepwear line, but these watches will work in any metro area that offers Motorola FLEX coverage; talk to your paging company for details...
...seems like the running game came together against Holy Cross," Elliott said. "It was a high-scoring game and we needed the run to compete. [Holy Cross] runs a flex-50 defense, which uses a lot of angles and slanting, and our slants and counters really worked well against that. The holes just started opening...