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...manic depressive insomniac who was in love with the guy who worked these hours before me," Karl said and he quickly turned back to he work at the grill. Just then the song "I've Got the Music in Me" blasted from the radio and Karl began to pound greasy hamburger patties on the skillet with the rhythm. "I love this song," he shouted...
...have plundered its natural resources, "often bequeathing decay rather than development." The series contains no on-camera interviews, just Mazrui's narration set against striking shots of African life and landscapes. The rhetoric is sometimes excessive ("the collective burial of a people," "Western sharks in search of a pound of flesh"). And Mazrui's approach can be annoyingly simplistic: his blaming, for instance, virtually all African violence on weapons imported from the West and his naive romanticizing of Gaddafi...
...mousse made me happy to be alive." The book is loaded with this sort of gush, although it is hard to believe that Conroy does not know the difference between good and silly writing. Elsewhere, he can make one's mouth water with straightforward description: "I caught a ten-pound sea bass and stuffed it with shrimp and fresh crabmeat, then cooked it over slow coals...
...November 14, 1948, 22-year-old PrincessElizabeth gave birth to a seven-pound, six-ounceboy. It took more than a month--until the day ofthe christening--for the child's parents toofficially announce his name: Charles PhilipArthur George...
WOODS HOLE, Mass.--Explorers visiting the Titanic 12,500 feet underwater in a tiny submarine named Alvin, fixed a 20-pound bronze plaque to the luxury liner's stern in memory of the 1,513 people who died after the ship struck an iceberg...