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...minutes before the expected adjournment of last week's city council meeting in Mount Pleasant, Iowa (pop. 7,300), a man in a parka and camouflage hunting cap approached the horseshoe-shaped meeting table. Whipping out a pistol, he shot one councilman in the head. As city officials ducked for cover, he fired eight more shots. When police arrived they found Mayor Edward King, 53, dead and two council members gravely injured. The gunman, Ralph Orin Davis, 69, had been angry with the city over a backed-up sewer...
...twelve hours of shooting will not wrap until 3 a.m. Such grueling conditions might test the patience of a film veteran, let alone a neophyte director making his first major motion picture. But the white- haired auteur remains focused and remarkably relaxed. Clad in a bulky parka to ward off the oceanside chill, he comes off like a cross between a Roman senator and a retired longshoreman as he hobnobs with the crew, rehearses the cast and then stands back to watch the action, his eyes twinkling. Between takes, Mailer crosses the street to another pub and peers...
Among the unwelcome additions are anorak, or parka, which the dictionary carefully attributes to Eskimos, not Anglophone backpackers. Other offenders: auto-stop, auburn and bacon. To those who cannot abide Franglais, as English words used in French are called, each such entry is a babelisme, which the new dictionary defines as the "degradation of a language by the invasion of foreign words...
...mostly seen in off-peak viewing hours. Yet Ellerbee seems to have had a prime time. "And So It Goes" is a breezy collection of anecdotes about covering the news both soft and hard: the circus as well as political campaigns (because she was dressed in jeans and a parka, George Bush mistook her for a network electrician). Ellerbee talks tough about the shortcomings of her profession and salty about sex and sexism at the office. The saline reporter with a whim of iron is not a pose. This month she spurned NBC's best offer to head for greener...
Sergei, 25, a blond architect in a blue-and-red woolen hat, a blue parka and jeans: "It's sad, of course, on a human level that Chernenko died. I didn't expect him to go on forever, so it wasn't what I would call a shock. But politics? Well, we only have one party, which pursues one and the same course, so I can't see that it makes much difference who came before and who will come after. At least Gorbachev won't die after a year, I suppose...