Word: graveyard
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...That is one of the stupidest girls I have met in my life," Karl said after she left. Karl should know. As late night grillcook at the Tasty, Karl has met his share of off-beat customers, working the graveyard shift three nights a week. "She just wanted me because she thought I was from the other side of the tracks," he says...
...hybrid of the public and the private man: Stricklyn speaks in the guise of Williams addressing a reporter, so his rambling 90-min. monologue is unmistakably a performance. Even so, there are passages of naked confession. The time is Williams' declining years, and the prevailing tone is graveyard jollity, dancing at the abyss. Like authentic conversation, Nightingale veers abruptly from revelation to chitchat; at one moment Williams self-justifyingly remarks that much of life is made of trivia. The talk ranges from bitchy quips ("I just flew in from Hollywood. I was there too long: four hours") and camp badinage...
...malaise. Only last spring the paradigm of evil was terrorism. But a few months and a couple of bombings of Libya later, he has come to realize that all of his empty bellowings will do nothing to stop TWA flights from being hijacked or Paris from becoming a veritable graveyard...
Professor of Law Martha Minow also proposed sweeping changes in the curriculum, even while quoting Woodrow Wilson who said, "trying to change curricula is liking trying to move a graveyard...
...keeping the peace in a town that glorifies its lawless past. Tombstone's bloody history is about the only thing it has in the way of a drawing card, and since tourism is about the only thing it has in the way of a business, there you are. Boothill graveyard holds the remains of scores who did not go gentle into that good night. The main drag, Allen Street, is virtually a shrine to the trigger- happy, to soiled doves and to strong drink. Hiring on as a deputy in April 1984, McNeely thought he spotted some connection between Tombstone...