Word: stiffs
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...famously stiff Ed Sullivan, who'd once vowed never to have Elvis on his show, was so thrilled by his guest's effect on the show's ratings that he announced on camera, "I wanted to say to Elvis and the country that this is a real decent, fine boy." Such sentiments did not keep the network brass from issuing an historic decree to the cameramen: Elvis was to be shot strictly from the waist...
...From the Quarry Bay subway station, it's a stiff stroll up Mount Parker road to the rarely-frequented Sir Cecil's Ride. The three-kilometer-long, narrow dirt path snakes its way west, ducking through thick forest. If your timing is right, you will emerge just as the sun sinks behind the skyscraper-studded retail district of Causeway...
...camps did nothing, of course, to solve the underlying problem of homelessness on Cape Cod. Some of those living in the camps were alcoholics; since no Cape Cod homeless shelter allows alcohol— a so-called “wet” shelter in Hyannis has met with stiff opposition—these people have few housing options. Some of those who had been living in the camps were released from mental institutions in the de-institutionalization movement of the 1970s, and struggle with their mental health. Although local charities such as the Salvation Army provided emergency lodging...
After reading their bank statements, many consumers may need a stiff drink. Perhaps with that in mind, Smile, a British online bank owned by the Co-operative Bank, has launched drinks2u, a home delivery service of alcohol, supplied by Co-op supermarkets. But Smile's management also has reason to hoist a few - in celebration. In April the Internet bank signed up its 500,000th account holder, and it continues to add clients at a rate of about 20,000 a month. "We are on target," says ceo Bob Head, who adds that his goal - though a very long-term...
...aren't given a single overt clue as to how they feel toward each other until Lanchester stoops to the positively Victorian device of a misplaced letter. Lanchester neither shows nor tells, infuriatingly keeping every important moment of emotional revelation offstage. That sort of writerly reticence would exact a stiff toll in a shorter book; in an epic, it's lethal...