Word: pal
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...paleontology's great mysteries: the almost complete absence of juvenile dinosaurs, especially babies, from the fossil record. He went back to Montana the following summer, with the idea of spending his vacation searching for babies in some likely shales, in the company of a beer-drinking, fossil- hunting pal named Bob Makela. They wound up one Sunday morning helping the owner of a rock shop in Bynum identify some of her fossils. Among them was a coffee can full of bones from a recent dig, including a fragment of a thumb- size femur. "You're not going to believe this...
Where does Burns get her own zip? "She has a crazy appetite for this business," says Phillips. She does. Julia Horowitz, a pal from Syracuse days, remembers a vacation they took a few years ago on Antigua: "Every day at 1 o'clock she would go into town and spend two or three hours on the phone with the office...
...addition to viewing the tape, the 18 jurors and alternates (who include 15 women) heard sordid stories of drug use and sexual escapades from Moore and Linda Creque Maynard, a friend of Barry's former pal convicted coke salesman Charles Lewis. Maynard described how Barry overpowered her and forced her to have intercourse with him at a Virgin Islands hotel in March 1988. Dixie Lee Hedrington, another Virgin Islands woman who claimed that she had been harassed by the mayor, testified that...
...there, long after Baldwin had played his memorable cameo as a Mafia stiff. Funny thing is that Demme only produced Miami Blues; his colleague from the Roger Corman B-movie Borstal of the '70s, George Armitage, is the writer-director. Funnier still, Armitage has one-upped his old pal. Whereas Demme's movies punctuate flaky comedy with explosions of violence, Miami Blues blends the two moods in a savory tropical cocktail. What makes the taste so tangy -- the rum or the cyanide...
...Hecht was lounging between careers -- he had written seven novels and two Broadway plays and was now dead broke -- when in 1926 he received a telegram from his pal Herman J. Mankiewicz, then a Hollywood scriptwriter. "Will you accept three hundred per week to work for Paramount Pictures?" the wire read. "The three hundred is peanuts. Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots." Then a mock-wily P.S.: "Don't let this get around...