Word: mooch
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...forgive, they say in France, and by poring through the unpublished notebooks of both Chatwin and his friends, by talking to seemingly everyone who knew him and by training his novelist's urbanity on all this, Shakespeare shows how the dandified collector of odd treasures could honestly mooch off duchesses while maintaining that one should live like a Mauritanian nomad...
...many assignments, and some unhappy customers toss him into the desert after supergluing a Santa suit to his body (no, this doesn't make more sense when you see it). Without the money for a bus ticket, Jake has to rely on his smooth-talking savvy to mooch enough rides to get him across the country in two days. In the meantime, he must cook up a way to win back his disgruntled girlfriend who gives up on Jake's selfish ways and takes off with Eddie (Adam LaVorgna), class smoothie (grease and all) and Jake's nemesis...
...other side of the friends versuscigarettes debate, another Smelly Rock smoker hasthe opposite problem. She laments a classic caseof denial: "I go through more cigarettes than Ishould because my boyfriend is a big mooch whothinks that if he doesn't buy his own cigaretteshe's not a smoker and won't get addicted." Onceagain, the first step to recovery is admitting onehas a problem...
...more pride than Bill Cowher. Take the three and run. And the 49ers, who haven't had to care in, like, 9 weeks, are getting two from the Seahawks. WHAT? Despite the very real possibility that everybody knows something L.I. Slim doesn't, he just can't picture Coach Mooch losing this game and risking a playoff letdown in his debut year. The cares: Both DETROIT (without help from Colts or Philly) and the Jets, who are in only with a win. Which makes this one a tough pick . . . Tuna's time is next year. But at 6.5-point dogs...
...elderly are picking up. Senior Sleuths, formed in 1989 by the Florida attorney general's office, deploys 550 people in sting operations to gather evidence against scammers. A.A.R.P. has mounted a reverse boiler-room operation in several states. It phones seniors to warn them that their names appear on mooch lists confiscated by police...