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This was Cleveland's famous illegitimate tyke, 10 years old in 1884, who would be immortalized in the song, "Ma! Ma! Where's My Pa?" - "Little Tom Tid was a frolicsome kid/ A cute little cuss I declare...
...from Vaclav Havel, former president of Czechoslovakia, to ancient Irish folk songs. She does not focus only on large cities, or even large countries. She gives equal time to villages like Shnackenburg and countries like France and Germany. A few sections in the book are small lists of interesting tid-bits; for instance, in "An interlude on food" Morris explains that "The Italians eat most sensibly. The British eat most unhealthily. The Spaniards eat most abstermiously," and so on. And Morris has enough experience and writes genuinely enough that these pronouncements seem almost unquestionable...
...pencils. Houston is a show-and-tell city. It loves to gossip, and for every woman sitting in the select, reservations-only audience who prefers to remain anonymous, there are two others eager to talk about run-around husbands, face- . lifts and other people's problematic origins. The biographical tid-bits always begin with husbands: past, present and future. For most of these women, their husbands are their careers. The sober choice of expensive clothes is important to both of them, as crucial to the administrative maintenance of their place in society as the hiring of the immigrant gardeners...
These colonial-age McCarthss find an all in the supernaturally spotty angel Alexis Position (Guy LaCrospy) When not rejecting the advances of Lon Sutter (Peter Sagal), a frustrated devil with a macho complex. Alexis is busy trying to tid Salem of its witches. Although the inn matrons are all-too mortal. Alexis goes in for the kill once she sees Lou cavorting with the leggy Anna, a woman literally dripping with scarier letters...
Barred for the most part from the embassy grounds, reporters tried to elicit tid bits from the students guarding the gate; and climbed to the roofs of nearby buildings for a view of the compound. After one such reconnaissance, NBC Correspondent Martin Fletcher and his crew were detained for several hours for "taking secret pictures of the embassy." ABC and CBS finally made it "on campus," as the compound was called, but the students they interviewed spoke so haltingly and solemnly that the results resembled a Saturday Night Live sendup. "A pure propaganda ploy," groused a CBS newsman...