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...sear-old labor leader said the decision to give him his job back was intended in part to help authorities keep track of him and thereby curtail his contacts with the under ground...
Hedgeman, who is fouring the country to promote her latest book. "The Gilt of Chaos," spoke at the Schlesmger Library luncheon series a four sear old program of icctuses by the women whose papers and oral histories are preserved at the library...
...Woiwode's premise would hardly matter if he had made the unlikely seem inevitable. Instead, he channels his energies into sour asides on the state of modern urban life and spasms of empurpled prose: "The drink was gone. The last of it was going in a crawling sear down his esophagus, and then it struck his stomach with the breath-stopping burn of eating at the membrane over an ulcer...
...years, Sir's dresser Norman (Tom Courtenay) has shielded him from difficulties and the truths that sear. Playing loyal serf to imperious sovereign, he has bolstered Sir's morale, salved his ego, washed his underpants, suffered his diatribes and basked in the reflected glory of his occasional triumphs upon the stage. Norman is nimble-witted, mocking, tartly observant, yet given to foggily elusive reminiscence. His most trusted friend seems to be the half-bottle of Scotch in his back pocket. Norman is a homosexual, but his love for Sir is protective, albeit possessive, and achingly platonic...
...breeder hens. Egg production has dropped 5%, and Brown predicted that U.S. chicken prices will go up 15% in three weeks. Cotton yields in some parts of Texas will probably be about 30% less than last year's. In South Texas, ranchers burned expensive propane gas to sear the needles off prickly pear cactus so that cattle could eat and suck water from the plants...