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...stories, many of which serve the public well.* But standards are changing: the Pulitzer Prize board denied awards to the Chicago Sun-Times in 1979 and to the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner in 1982, at least partly because their reporters used false identities. The Sun-Times set up a saloon business and paid bribes to city officials; a Herald-Examiner reporter claimed to be an illegal alien and took a job in a garment-industry sweatshop...
...never going to be able to spot a Culture Club record by just the music. It will be George's voice that identifies us." The voice is an excellent instrument, gliding over notes like a Slinky toy that springs downstairs on its own power. As the saloon singers of an older generation might have put it, the kid's got a great set of pipes...
...local bartender who asked that the name of his saloon not be published said he will still serve the beer to his customers...
...decision to send over the New Jersey and other offshore firepower, but they clearly itch to settle matters themselves. Last fall, when Marines in Beirut were not allowed to carry loaded weapons, the company mess tent was decorated with a sign reading THE CAN'T SHOOT BACK SALOON. After they were finally allowed to arm themselves last spring, the sign changed to THE CAN SHOOT BACK SALOON. When Alpha Company engaged unidentified gunmen in a daylong firefight on Aug. 29, the Marines repainted the sign THE DID SHOOT BACK SALOON. "When we see the whites of their eyes...
...Cheryl Tiegs, but she was a woman. You were reminded a little of someone else, but that was in another country. You held her hand. She wore your hat. Then she got too drunk to talk to and you left her at Rick's Place, a saloon where Martinez was about to lose control over Seagram's Seven and Seven...