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...Linda Lambkin, a negotiator for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), HUCTW's parent union, said that building security considerations were often negotiated into union contracts...
...critic is equally hysterical about another large-scale plagiarism: the Divine Comedy of Hilario Lambkin Formento. This nonbook is not a brazen, word-for-word theft, Domecq insists, but rather the best piece of descriptive criticism ever penned on Dante's masterpiece, since it is an exact replica of the original...
...Killed Dylan? The first to shrink visibly in Caitlin's earth-mothering embrace is Dylan himself: "Dylan used to read to me in bed, in our first, know-nothing, lamb-sappy days; to be more exact, Dylan may have been a skinny, springy lambkin, but I was more like its buxom mother then, and distinctly recollect carrying him across streams under one arm; till the roles were reversed and he blew out and I caved in." Exactly why Dylan "blew out" is a question that has fueled his funeral pyre for the last four years. The argument ranges from...
...previous young wife; Jude flirts gingerly with sex when he meets a blowsy, redheaded tavern mis tress whose face just fits the Rubens-like nude canvas which he almost never dis plays. Closest he comes to trouble is when a sheriff mistakenly nabs him as Ruby Lambkin, a highwayman whose legendary misdeeds run a counterpoint through the novel and, off & on, in gentle Jude's wistful thinking...
...Author Jefferson complains that many British and U.S. writers of hymns for children "have had what one can only term 'the lamb obsession.' 'Lambs' appear over and over again, while 'little lambkin' is not unknown ... It is extremely doubtful whether any child finds the term agreeable ... It was long before hymns, deliberately written for the young, could be cleared of the constant, and quite untrue suggestion, that the child's constant concern was with the thought of heaven and the life hereafter...