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...mind in this business, you lose them." A first marriage fell apart during his early years in corrections, when he had not yet learned to leave the strains of the job at the office. "I had a bad temper," he says. "I'd carry it home and let it rip." Now he refuses to discuss office problems at home...
...Home Alone 2 precisely follows the formula that made its predecessor the biggest grossing comedy in human history. But no, it is not a drag, and it is not a rip-off. Look on it as a twice-told fairy tale. And look on its tellers, writer John Hughes and director Chris Columbus, as craftsmen who have taken the responsibilities of success seriously. They have acted not as caretakers of valuable property but as trustees of something millions regard as a kind of national treasure, pop-culture division...
...nation's choice. I stared at his face. Such enormous pride and success seemed to well up in his eyes, so much so that he must temporarily have lost sense of his embodiment, his feet, arms, the people in ecstasy round him. As his spirit soared, the temptation to rip off his clothes and dance a goblin dance was surely huge. To throw his toned muscles into the adoring crowd, and sublimate himself by exquisitely losing control; for surely all human Gods must look on their bodies with a detached curiosity. Was it me, my drunken apparitions, or had Clinton...
Although I can understand the owner's concern,I actually liked the rip that adorned the seat inmy booth. It reminded me of the worn butcomfortable kitchen seats on which I spent many anhour Aunt Bessie's table. And I became even moredistressed when I found out that all of the boothsare being replaced in a matter of weeks...
...Phylloxera Task Force, but no chemical treatment has proved effective against this new biotype, and experts cannot rule out further mutations. In fact, another strain of the louse has been found in central California and as far south as Santa Barbara. For farmers the safest solution is to rip out their AXR 1 and replant with one of a dozen or so other rootstalks that appear to be more resistant to the mutations, at least so far. After replanting, it takes three years for a vine to produce mature, harvestable grapes...