Word: ragging
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Like all good twenty- and thirtysomethings in pop culture today, the threesome have a table all their own in a coffeeshop down the street--a Cuban cafe called Ossorio's, where Ossorio himself affectionately calls the rag-tag artists his "white and wounded fluffy baby birds." They are each other's best friends and worst critics, literally living through everything together and nurturing each other to the very last. "I don't consider myself psychic, just lucky--with friends," says Hartley. The reader, in being included in the circle, is equally fortunate...
...year-old boy named Jeffrey Curley with promises of $50 and a new bicycle. The police said that when the boy refused to have sex with the men, one of them, Charles Jaynes, who weighs 250 lbs., sat on Jeffrey and smothered him with a gasoline-soaked rag. Then, according to the police, the men had sex with the corpse and, after that, bought a 50-gal. Rubbermaid container, sealed the body in it with duct tape and dumped the container into a river on the Maine-New Hampshire border...
...course, this is all but one side of the police force-the inside. To the rest of L.A., as portrayed in the tell-all rag penned by the repulsive Sid Hudgeons (an irritating-as-heck Danny DeVito), the police force is personified by the slick shining example of sartorial splendor, Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey). With busts carefully engineered through planted drugs or hommes fatales, Vincennes and Hudgeons put on a show for the public that leaves the face of the L.A. police indistinguishable from the ruthlessly just, squeakyclean "Dragnet"-type TV program Vincennes advises...
...would probably start with the fact that the squeegee guys are off the streets. In years past, at certain intersections in Manhattan, menacing-looking characters used to approach cars at red lights and, without invitation, clean the windshield as well as a windshield could be cleaned with a filthy rag. For this they would expect money. They were called squeegee guys...
...time Marc was done, he had given investigators the full tour of Flinn's privacy, a map of where and how and how often they had had sex. Four days later, on Dec. 1, he tried to kill himself by taking sleeping pills and stuffing a rag in the exhaust of his car. But he left the garage door open and called Gayla from the car phone. In the hospital, he finally admitted the affair to her, and she announced that she was through with him. When Kelly went to see him, says Ann Dell Duncan, a clinical psychologist...