Word: rag
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...pupil) once earmarked for the school is diverted to parents, initially for use on transportation to better public schools. Then, after three years, parents can exercise their "school choice" and use that money toward private school tuition. (Notice that the words "school choice" have replaced the red-rag-to-the-bull "vouchers...
...professional, as Hunter Thompson used to say, and at least there's no shortage of future castoffs. Keith, the master chef who can only cook when there's porcini mushrooms involved and who's trying to pass himself off as a do-rag-wearing stud who can carry "big logs and stuff." Alicia, who may be able to wash the Kucha Tribe's clothes on her stomach but can't even make bitchiness entertaining. Nick, who doesn't have a discernible personality, and Tina, who's sweet and earnest but can't keep her grub down or my eyelids...
...most vocal of them gathered near the Navy Memorial, where some managed to hoist down the American flag and raise their own, a black rag. Blue-helmeted riot police responded with batons and pepper spray...
...same as those separating them from the likes of Jernigan, whose solo set I stick around for before heading home. He opens with the bebop standard "Jordu," effectively blowing away about 99 percent of the field, then satisfies the country contingent's needs with terrifying versions of "Black Mountain Rag" and "Orange Blossom Special." I smile in idiotic bliss...
...year eludes Nick, but it doesn't escape Robert W. Creamer, who's had a few lunches at Gallagher's since 1956, when he covered the last Subway Series for a struggling young rag called SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. "I did that one and '55," says Creamer, biographer of both Babe and Casey (Ruth and Stengel, for the baseball illiterati). "Back then a Subway Series was of a piece--there were 13 of them in New York between 1921 and '56. The Yankees were playing the Giants, or then later they were playing the Dodgers. It was a rivalry renewed, and players...