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This time, though, I decided to live in the city. Although the D.C. suburbs extend out far enough that people make the daily commute from my grandmother's town to Washington by car, subway, or MARC (the Maryland commuter train), I couldn't bear to add the extra two hours...
...hooker with nerves of creme brulee. She is comically neurotic--her heels and condoms are always spilling out of her book bag--and prone to ulcers and indigestion. "What's wrong with you?" she asks herself at one point. "Men smile at you on the subway, women ask you what shampoo you use; be happy." Why Bennington isn't, say, an assistant in the copywriting department at Ogilvy & Mather is anybody's guess...
Just as the alien invasion blockbuster Independence Day landed in movie theaters (with a staggering $11-million opening night), electricity mysteriously shut off in large parts of eight Western states--snarling traffic, knocking out phone and subway service, turning off air conditioners and bringing heat-drenched chaos to as many as 2 million people from Canada to Mexico. A simple coincidence? More than a few extraterrestrial aficionados thought they saw a more sinister connection. How else to explain that across a third of the U.S., movie theaters suddenly went dark...
...stunned, and stupefied by the attacks that they have not reacted yet. One thing is sure -- there is a full out terrorist war in Moscow." No one has claimed responsibility for the bomb, which is the third attack on Moscow's vulnerable public transport system since explosives in the subway killed four people on June 11. At a meeting of the Federal Security Service, Yeltsin said Moscow was littered with terrorists and promised he and Luzhkov would take tough measures. The two bus attacks follow a Wednesday agreement by Yeltsin and his newly appointed national security advisor Alexander Lebed...
...party boss, sighed when Jean Arthur confessed her love and cheered when they hypocritical Claude Rains broke down and admitted how right Jimmy had been all along. It wasn't a total transformation; everyone knew that, when the lights went out, they would be walking back to an empty subway in the dark, and the defensive glower would have to return...