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...reaching this astonishing conclusion, the intrepid investigators used only the most rigorous scientific methods. Choosing Churcher's small village as their test site, they conducted a feline census and found that 78 cats resided in the community's 173 houses, "a slightly higher incidence of cat owning than in Britain as a whole." Owners of 77 of the cats agreed to cooperate. Each was given a supply of consecutively numbered polyethylene bags labeled with his cat's code letter and asked to store whatever was left of any prey his pet brought home...
...McDonald's all your life, then you won't like broccoli the first time you taste it." When Roberts is cooking at the keys, though, he serves up jazz that is not only knowledgeable but accessible. Contemporary jazz can be too hip to draw in the listener: the more intrepid the music, the more insistent it seems about sealing itself off. Roberts' gift is to keep connected to past masters like Monk while extending the music's possibilities -- and its audience -- into the future with a light and open hand. Bump...
...that a most timely total eclipse was going to occur, escaped being burned at the stake by King Arthur's knights when he predicted that the sun would disappear. A benign form of sun worship continues to this day, not only among beachgoers but also by a group of intrepid American astronomy buffs who have traveled around the world by plane, ship and jeep, from Java to Siberia to Africa, to view each of the past dozen total eclipses...
...glasnost have helped see to that. But Smith's formula for success ought to remain valid if a suitable substitution can be found for step 3. In Polar Star, Smith finds it. One dead body leads to others, along an arc of increasing menace and violence. Arkady Renko, the intrepid police investigator of Gorky Park, reappears, again called to rescue a situation that shadowy, powerful forces may not want to be saved...
...intrepid investigative journalist and wistful senior, I've been going to a lot of senior bars lately trying to find the source of their dubious appeal. After all, the illicit thrill of drinking when you are underage is gone if you're a senior. Three-fourths of the partygoers are not seniors, the people you presumably came to see. Conversation is impossible, and the press toward the keg of lame beer resembles a British soccer match...