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...strip joint on Sunset Boulevard and a debt of dishonor. No sooner has he finished paying off the mortgage on the Crazy Horse West than he runs up an unmanageable IOU at a Santa Monica gambling joint. To pay the debt, the gamblers put this proposition to Cosmo: snuff a Chinatown bookie. Cosmo likes the risk of the proposition. Even more, though, he enjoys the almost certain prospect of disaster. He has been looking for a way over the brink for a long time...
...references to laudelets, phaetons, barques of frailty, diamonds of the first water, and vouchers to Almack's. A careful reader is also likely to be familiar with the origin of Lady Sally Jersey's nickname, the Prince Regent's confused marital status, and Lord Petersham's penchant for mixing snuff. Heyer's research into the lifestyle of the peerage may not have produced great sociological tracts, but she certainly knew what the requisite costume for a nuncheon party was, and why Beau Brummel was good ton and Letty Lade...
...that K-2 skis are probably the best all-around skis available. Unlike some of the others, K-2 has maintained a high reputation for quality over a number of years; they have yet to put out a ski that is prone to breakage or just not up to snuff. In addition, K-2's new lines, the 233, 244 and 255, (in shorts or conventional lengths) stand out as all-round skis in an extremely flooded market. And anyway, if you care about such things, the K-2 is a subsidiary of Cummins Engine Co., by far the most...
...Crimson shut the Green out in the second half. Whenever Dartmouth did threaten, Harvard came up with the big play to kill the drive. All told, there were four fumbles and four interceptions forced by Harvard, and most of them came deep inside Crimson territory, just in time to snuff out a Green scoring chance...
...submits to murder during sex. (Last week there was growing suspicion that some film producers were outdoing Vadim's fantasies; New York police and the FBI revealed that they were investigating persistent reports that underworld figures are discreetly, and at prices as high as $1,500, renting out "snuff films"-pornographic movies culminating in the actual murder of a woman.) The depth of such anti-female hostility in great numbers of normal, well-adjusted males is poorly understood by men. As Germaine Greer writes: "The men who do cruel things to women are not a class apart; they...