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...time now. And they may even walk in whistling a Randy Newman tune. Not one of those devastating early songs like Davy the Fat Boy or Vine St. or even Sail Away. More likely they will be puckering their lips around one of the novelty numbers of comparatively recent vintage, like Short People. (Remember "Short people got no reason to live"?) Says the composer, who will have scarfed up the cocktail peanuts by this time and will likely be heading for home: "That song was a joke. It's about someone who is insane. Nobody harbors that kind...
...Seal Beach, Ventura and Sunset Beach were extremely hard-hit. In the exclusive Malibu colony, waves left the homes of Film Stars Bruce Dern, Burgess Meredith and Dyan Cannon awash with debris. "I knew it was all over," said Colony Resident Becky Ilagen, "when I saw the hot tub sail by into the ocean...
...irresponsive, and unruffled." Mac Whirr, said Conrad, had "just enough imagination to carry him through each successive day." Yet that meager imagination became the hero of the tale, for when a monstrous storm arose at sea, and the good captain was advised by all the voices of reason to sail around and behind the trouble, he of the consistent mind responded, "A gale is a gale, and a full-powered steamship has got to face it." That he did. The ship was knocked to pieces, but it did get through...
...transit improvements. Unlike the Democrats, Reagan refrained from terming the proposal a "jobs bill." Instead he called it a "user's fee" and a "highway bill." This euphemistic truce enabled both parties to embrace the proposal; it was overwhelmingly approved by the House and was expected to sail through the Senate...
Until They Sail (1957): Not much to play there...