Word: jacks
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...side of a highway and facing a creek that runs below a bridge, is an abandoned house that was not quite lost to a fire. No one has bothered to knock it down or rebuild it. Its windows are shuttered with gray planks of wood, shingles are missing like jack-o'-lantern teeth, and its beams are scorched. It would be perfect as a haunted house for the local kids this Halloween, if any kid would care to go near it. But the house looks too forlorn for games and too forbidding. I don't even know if I should...
When he was just a ruddy-faced lad newly graduated from Ole Miss, Jim Barksdale applied for work as a salesman for the first monopoly of the info age, IBM. Barksdale had an in: his elder brother and mentor, Jack, was already employed by Big Blue. Alas, the advantage proved to be short-lived. "I don't know if I can have two Barksdales working for me," said the sales manager who interviewed...
...Well, then," shot back Barksdale, "fire Jack...
...Costas insists that this year's Yankee starting lineup couldn't compete with the eight everyday players on the '75 Reds. This may be true, but just try to name another Cincinnati starting pitcher apart from the hardly immortal Don Gullett. If you said Fredie Norman, Gary Nolan or Jack Billingham, you win a prize. You also pull the plug on the Big Red Machine...
...most recent film was How Stella Got HerGroove Back. Other big screen performancesinclude Ghost, Sister Act, Jumpin' Jack Flash,Boys on the Side, and her 1985 debut, TheColor Purple. She is a winner of the Academyaward and has twice received Golden Globe awards...