Word: ganges
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Pope has no pity for slow learners. By the time you read the first page, the main character, known as "S," has already stolen the volatile titular liquid from a criminal gang and begun to boil some of it up so he can drip it into his ear for its psychotropic properties. Thereafter it becomes a double cat-and-mouse tale as the gang hunts down "S" while "S" gets hired by an art collector to find a missing artist who can cast the liquid into a sculpture. Meanwhile, nobody really knows where this liquid comes from or what...
...Timothy Hutton et al singing "Sweet Caroline" in the bar (Beautiful Girls); the tearful recollection of "Rolling With the Homies" in Clueless; Jamie Bell dancing through the streets of Durham as "A Town Called Malice" plays; Dustin Hoffman whistling "Mrs. Robinson"(!) to himself in The Graduate; Winona Ryder and gang dancing to "My Sharona" in the gas-station convenience store (Reality Bites); John Cusack holding up the boombox (of course); Michelle Pfeiffer singing "Making Whoopee" on the piano; seasons changing as Hugh Grant walks down the Portobello Road to "Ain't No Sunshine" (Notting Hill); the bittersweet use of "Raindrops...
...those judicial projectiles was Thomas Penfield Jackson, the judge who presided over the Microsoft trial. The reason for the appellate court's displeasure: Jackson's intemperate comments to the press while the case was pending--notably, comparing Microsoft at various points to a French emperor and a D.C. drug gang. Or as Chief Judge Harry Edwards acerbically put it, Jackson's propensity to "run off [his] mouth." The legal system, Edwards said, "would be a sham if all judges went around doing this...
Making matters worse, Jackson's comments were not particularly judicious. According to Auletta's book, the judge compared Microsoft to the Newton Street Crew, a Washington gang over whose murder and drug-trafficking cases he had presided. "I am now under no illusions that miscreants will realize that other parts of society view them that way," Jackson told Auletta. He also criticized Bill Gates for having a "Napoleonic" view of himself and Microsoft...
...goals. Audience members have even begun to bring props to gigs, as was demonstrated by the use of hula-hoops at that night's performance. The group mainly performs covers and cites influences such as James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Sly Stone, Tower of Power, Parliament and Kool and the Gang. FinkFankFunk arose from failed attempts at a Dixieland trio two years ago and has since gone through several changes in musicians and instruments to reach its current state...