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...then the sheer thrill of the chase would be lost. And thrilling it is--although that bus does drop below 50 miles per hour at some points. Watch it and see. It's not for lack of Annie's driving abilities, of course--as a speed nut myself, I got very fond of Annie. She's as tough as any California girl not used to danger can believably be when thrust into maximum overdrive crisis...
...Oliver North might be a nut. I don't know." -- Iowa Senator Charles Grassley
...real life, smokers cannot pretend they don't care. They know they are plague victims and suspect they may be carriers. So they try meeting a censorious society halfway. They puff on their butts behind a closed office door, and indulge their health-nut friends by abstaining from cigarettes during the dinner hour -- which, without a nicotine fix, seems to stretch on for days...
...mysteries, as opposed to real-life ones, is that the culprit is always "here tonight." Which may be one reason why the Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding story has struck such a chord. Kerrigan's attacker was not, as most people assumed at first, a crazed fan or a random nut. The crime appears to have been -- just like TV! -- an elaborately plotted effort by another skater's camp to eliminate a rival. Any fan of Murder, She Wrote can recognize the motive. And not even Columbo could have cracked the case faster...
...advertised as a good return, you're going to want willing- suspension-of-disbelief by the truckload. The casino oligarchs figure you will start by believing you saw a hanky transformed into a pigeon, and be on the road to believing it really is your lucky day. If that nut can turn into a white tiger, I should be able to roll another seven, easy. If you don't believe in a little bit of magic, you don't gamble. And if you don't like magic and you don't gamble, you're better off in Branson...