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...Reeves' Valentine's Day soon turned sour. In the next few hours, as the council hammered out a final draft of a Linear Park down-zoning ordinance in North Cambridge, Galluccio, an Independent, persuaded CCA councillors Braude and Davis and Independents Maher and Sullivan to elect him mayor...
...creep. Indeed, except on one occasion, I have been unable to detect in McCain any of the usual Republican prejudices. That exception was when I told him I was moving to Berkeley, Calif. At the thought he wrinkled up his nose as if he'd just swallowed sour milk and said, "How could anyone live there?" I suppose everyone has his breaking point...
...think that most people on the council will understand that this is not political sour grapes," Hawkins said...
...weekend that started with such high hopes, however, quickly turned sour for the Crimson (9-1), who lost its first five games on route to a 7-2 thrashing at the Bantams' hands...
...along with Norman Mailer and John Updike, who had attacked Wolfe earlier. So it has always gone. Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac: "That's not writing, it's typing." Gore Vidal on Capote: "He has made lying an art. A minor art." The novelist James Gould Cozzens, perhaps expressing sour grapes of wrath: "I cannot read 10 pages of Steinbeck without throwing...