Word: hawkers
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...message, "Vote for us tomorrow, please," before he moved on. In the city-state, where the opposition has to contend with a monolithically progovernment media, this kind of flesh pressing is especially critical. But there was also something more, something almost frantic about the way Chee hurried though the hawker stalls and hardware shops, never looking back...
...Lear and a fellow hawker named Ed Simmons decided that the street they really wanted to work was comedy writing. It was 1949; the infant medium of television was ravenous for material; the new team needed just one break in order to kiss baby pictures goodbye ? and Lear typically made it for them. Posing as a New York Times reporter, he got Danny Thomas' phone number from an agent. He called Thomas and offered him a piece of material for a benefit engagement that night at Ciro's in Hollywood. "How long wilt asked Thomas. "How long do you need...
...guerrilla attack on the small red-roofed town of Aracinovo on the outskirts of the capital earlier this month stirred panic in Skopje, emptying the streets and causing NATO to rethink its approach to the conflict. But every pundit and newspaper hawker in Skopje had for months predicted a rebel attempt on Aracinovo. "How much would it have taken to secure the town with a few detachments of police troops, backed up by forces at the nearby airport," asks a local analyst. Government ineptitude has spawned conspiracy theories, including the suggestion that Prime Minister Georgievski actually wanted to lose Aracinovo...
...held up saying "John 3:16," thinking that at least religion was still paramount. Nate quickly explained that it was a twisted sexual reference to a certain female wrestler who had announced the week before that she does not wear underwear. I debated walking out. Instead, I asked the hawker tossing out peanuts if he had a Perrier on the premises...