Word: laned
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...they are raring to go, Broder thinks. As they clogged academic admissions offices, throngs are now fighting for places in the political fast lane. Fairly oozing confidence in these young turks, Broder seems to have tried to interview them all-everybody. This desire to get at least a few paragraphs on every up-and-coming city councilor or county executive in the country is half of the book's most serious flaw. Broder boasts having interviewed 300 people for his 500-page tome; a selective paring of the number of people discussed would have streamlined a bulky text...
Corporate product-plugging accounts for the presence of such mediocre bands as the Urban Verbs, Pearl Harbor and Robin Lane, all of which sound slick, derivative and, well, utterly tame in comparison to their earlier counterparts...
...taking them back to Washington. At a press conference eerily like those conducted by the militants in Tehran, where the 52 American hostages have been held since Nov. 4, the Iranians denounced what they called police brutality during their recent imprisonment. Joining the Iranians in the mosque was Mark Lane, the publicity-hound attorney, who has been out of the headlines since 1978 when he was retained by Jim Jones' Peoples Temple in the Guyana jungle. After police-escorted vans finally took the Iranians from the mosque, New York Mayor Koch exclaimed: "They're not students, they...
...private contempt. Voters face a choice for President in November that leaves many of them shaking their heads. An uneasy suspicion has formed that the U.S. is about to leave the sweeping interstate highway it has cruised along for more than a generation, and return to a two-lane blacktop. Or worse. That is a heretical direction of thought for Americans. For most of the nation's 204 years, pessimism has been considered un-American -in an official way, at least...
...ambulance sets out for Koptelsky Lane. Only 3½ hours left on the shift...