Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PARKING EN ESTE DRIVEWAY reads a sign in Miami, and motorists know exactly what it means. In Los Angeles, shopkeepers do not miss a beat if a customer asks, "Donde esta la panty hose?" When a newly arrived Manhattanite asks his neighbor, "Tienes un VCR?" the reply is immediate: "Over there, under...
...home soon." Hill, mentioning his children Nina, Roxanne and Paul, said, "I have every confidence that it will only be a short while before we're back in each other's arms." Garza told his family that he was well and had no special needs. Said Toga: "I miss my wife very much. I want to go home . . . I am healthy, I'm being taken care of, but I want to go home very badly...
...almost civilized for TV. The effect was strangely serene, almost lulling, at least until Conwell warned in his calm drawl, "If negotiations fail, we will be returned back to the original hijackers. Let me say, based on experience, that is something that I would find most unappealing." Lest reporters miss the point, a shadowy figure stalked in the background, hoisting...
Carefully, cautiously, determined not to miss the smallest detail this time around, the Brazilian investigators retraced their steps. Under the watchful gaze of foreign observers, gravediggers in the small hillside town of Embu reopened the local cemetery's tomb 321, from which they had exhumed some mysterious remains two weeks earlier, and turned up four more teeth and several bone fragments. On the outskirts of nearby Sao Paulo, police descended once again on the dilapidated bungalow where the mystery man was said to have lived, and uncovered two bullets and a box of medical supplies. Then, returning to the home...
...short ego trip away from Manhattan and Los Angeles. The new publisher of Country Daze, a Perrier-and-lime sort of publication, remarks: "I discriminate enough to know who means most to me. I mean most to me." So, apparently, does everyone else. Lucy Spenser, who writes a Miss Lonelyhearts column for the magazine under the pen name Cindi Coeur, is having a sporadic affair with her editor Hildon and trying to figure out why her old friend Les dumped her. Lucy's summer is further disrupted by the arrival of her niece Nicole, a teenage star...