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Such uncertainty leads to eruptions of inappropriate behavior. In Feathers, a man named Jack and his wife Fran are invited to dinner at the home of one of Jack's coworkers. They arrive and find a peacock strutting about the front yard, a wife happily domesticated in the kitchen and their host offering them drinks in a room where a TV set is carrying a stock-car race. All of this is too much for Fran, who did not want to come in the first place. She eyes the screen: "Maybe one of those damn cars will explode right...
Lempke remembers his first fly-fishing trip. It was 1929, and an old fellow in Idaho Falls had given him some flies. Lempke caught 26 fish that day and was, he recalls, "proud as a peacock." He was also hooked. He left school shortly thereafter, worked at an assortment of jobs and ended up a pipefitter in Los Angeles. But every time the green drake made its appearance, its siren call prompted him to drop everything; hence those three lost jobs. Eventually, Lempke came back to Idaho Falls and devoted himself to fishing his river, while doing enough pipefitting...
Opposition Leader Andrew Peacock took the offensive immediately after Hawke's admission last week. He charged that the Prime Minister's "behavior has been shown to be grossly improper." Hawke reacted sharply, saying he was "disgusted" that Peacock would make such allegations at a time when Hawke, because he was giving testimony at a hearing, could not respond. Hawke asserted that Peacock's charges amounted to defamation and protested to the commission about the opposition leader's statement. Peacock received a warning...
...Kent Peacock...
...raised their pinkies in emphatic, if somewhat wistful, denial of ever having had anything to do with MacLaine. Then she allowed that perhaps she did some Gerrymandering of the clues to conceal her ex-lover's identity. So still high on the list of suspects is Andrew Peacock, 44, a dashing member of Australia's last Conservative government, who is a longstanding friend of the actress. MacLaine now considers all the fuss a bother. "Affairs of state," she told a pack of sleuthing British reporters, "are more important than the state of my affairs...