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Word: patly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pat's Towing Service," she said...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: A Liberal Education | 9/26/1992 | See Source »

...luckily for me, I'm not that dumb--I had my insurance card with me. The police officer behind the bullet-proof glass window handed me a pink slip and told me that "Pat's Towing Service" was just a straight walk down the street--straight and straight and straight. It was in Somerville. Past Inman Square. (I always wondered where that was.) Past about 12 car repair shops, each of which made me think that I was close to my destination...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: A Liberal Education | 9/26/1992 | See Source »

...thought "Pat's Towing Service" would be a big parking lot with hundreds of impounded cars stretching all the way to Framingham. But the reality was even scarier. The towing operation is housed in a very gothic-looking brick building that looks like something out of "The Munsters. "The interior of the building is dark and oily. Broken down and smashed automobiles line the entry. And then you meet "Pat...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: A Liberal Education | 9/26/1992 | See Source »

...early guests. So are Bo Jackson, the retired two-sport flash, white supremacist Thomas Metzger, and the usual show-biz suspects, including Liz Taylor, Elton John and Tim Robbins. Violinist Itzhak Perlman is $ scheduled, and California senate candidate Dianne Feinstein is already taped. Whoopi wants to reason together with Pat Buchanan, who hopes to wall off the Mexican border, and with Pat Robertson, who believes that feminism leads to witchcraft. (Is Robertson right? Or does sanctimoniousness lead to prattle? Tune in and find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Joy of Being Whoopi Goldberg | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...problem was more or less fixed. But, yeah, you feel fear. They had issued a license to any nut who wanted to take me out." As usual, death threats or not, she was thoroughly professional for the filming. She arrived in South Africa with her accent down pat, according to Darrell Roodt, 29, the white director. Her acting is wonderfully instinctive, he says, and watching her, he would think, "My God, she's a schoolteacher in Soweto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Joy of Being Whoopi Goldberg | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

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