Word: parkers
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...flavor is authentic, especially in such inverted cliches as "Symbols are just a way of saying something more directly" or "Miss Edwina (his mother) can best be described as a Prussian general -- an inefficient Prussian general." His phrase turning is ornamented $ with borrowings from other writers ("I like Dorothy Parker's line 'Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress' ") and fellow melancholics ("Tallulah said . . . 'If I had my life to live over again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner' "). The evening's reverberant themes are guilt at having abandoned his troubled family, which...
...early Friday morning as passengers were boarding the plane for the flight to Frankfurt and New York. Most of the passengers were Indians or Pakistanis; the 80 or so Americans on the plane were mainly of South Asian ancestry. Among the travelers was a disgruntled businessman, Jay Grandtier of Parker, Colo., who had left Bombay that morning under the impression that Flight 73 was a nonstop to Frankfurt. "I got even more disappointed as the day went on," he quipped later...
...Minda Bikman, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Silvia Castaeda Contreras, Barbara Collier, Kenneth Collura, Barbara Dudley Davis, Jonathan Elukin, Osmar Escalona, Dora Fairchild, Sally George, Evelyn Hannon, Garry Hearne, Judith Kales, Theresa Kelliher, Kevin Kelly, Claire Knopf, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Peter K. Niceberg, Linda Parker, Maria A. Paul, Lois Rubenstein, Megan Rutherford, Judy Sandra, Ricki Tarlow, Lamarr Tsufura, Maitena Z. Viani, Jill Ward, Amelia Weiss...
...Robert B. Parker...
Varsity coach Harry Parker is considering entering a four in the Regatta which runs from July 3 to July 6, Clay said, adding that the varsity is unlikely to send an eight. Parker was unavailable for comment...