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Still the city fought for its life. Writing off fashionable Laurel Park's $50,000 homes because the area is lower than the arroyo lip, Harlingen took its stand in the central district, sandbagging dikes across streets wherever crews could find relatively high ground. Bulldozers gouged a 10-ft.-high earth embankment across one stretch, sacrificing the airport to save the city's core. Water mains burst and sewers backed up, spurting like geysers, as exhausted workers clung to the defense perimeter. Armed guards battled diamondback rattlesnakes as plentiful as worms after rain. Bushes turned black with water...
...subtle. In mid-Manhattan, not far from an A. & P. supermarket where shoppers buy regular-size cigarettes at 39? a pack, conventioneers visiting the Big Town can pay the big price at the New York Hilton newsstand-52? for nonfilter regulars, 53? for other kinds-and get some big lip too. "Because that's what we charge!" jeers the counterman at anyone who questions...
...TIME. After that, the team lost half its games-and the pennant race. (Although two years later the Orioles won both the pennant and the World Series.) Then there was Leo Durocher, who made the cover as manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. The very week "The Lip" appeared, he was banished from baseball for a year...
...just stuttered and fluttered, wrinkled my chin and pushed my hair back, then, wiping the spittle from the corner of my mouth, belted out a huge belch, after which I let out a four-letter oath; I gasped and bit my lip; my tongue twitched. Then unable to contain myself any longer, I talentedly threw...
...trademark mannerisms, the way she stutters and flutters her hands before uttering a line, as if about to goof it. Sandy is a constant hair pusher: in the first few minutes of Up the Down Stair case, she pushed three times. She is also an oral actress: a lip biter, tongue twitcher, mouth closer and chin wrinkler. Her vocal rhythm is a hesitation tango; her midsentence gasps leave audiences gasping...