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...netherworld of Reno lounge acts and Rotary Club M.C.s, talk-show ciphers and the I-hate-you-but-deep-down-inside-I'm-a-wonderful-guy Janus face of Don Rickles. To the post-funny comics, all the world's a cramped stage in a seedy Newark bar, and all the men and women -onstage or off-merely sweaty-palmed buffoons following the dog act. With devastating acuity, the post-funny comics evoke these laugh-cadging mendicants of the entertainment industry. And because the post-funnies are superb deadpan actors, their exaggeration has the gritty kick...
...Phillip Allen: "We always have flooded basements throughout Cleveland. It wouldn't be so bad if it were just storm water, but it's combined with sewage water." In St. Louis, about 15% of the water supply leaks out of the city's aged pipes. In Newark, 90% of the streets need patching, resurfacing or complete reconstruction...
...still "very confident" and "feeling good," though sorry to be missing work while "the budget vote is going on." The Senator's press secretary, Michael McCurry, was even more upbeat: "Constituents are remaining very loyal," he said, adding that New Jersey's biggest newspaper, the Newark Star Ledger, only a few days earlier had called Williams the state's "most popular politician...
...Cambridge two Septembers ago. Countryman had already established himself as the best long-distance freestyler in Region II of the AAU which included his home pool of Foxcatcher Swim Club then located outside Philadelphia on the DuPont Estate as well as Countryman's home 90-minutes away in Newark Del. Region II has also provided Harvard with two other sophomore swimmers, Maryland's Tom Verdin and Andy Lockman...
...addition to dominating the Mid-Atlantic, Countryman gained a national reputation while attending Newark High School. Less than a year after moving from Wilmington Aquatic Club to join Fox-catcher as a high school junior, Countryman earned himself a trip to Woodlands. Texas in the summer of 1978 for the Long Course Senior Nationals...