Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beliefs, limited as they are. If something funny happens in the supermarket, I like trying to talk about that. Because I think -- and this may be completely misguided -- if I were at home watching a show, I'd like to hear about Johnny Carson's getting a flat tire. But I don't want to start explaining in great detail what makes me happy, what makes me sad, that kind of crap...
...suburb in the past two decades. On the night of Sept. 7, 1984, Maria Marshall, 42, was shot to death while sitting in the family Cadillac. Husband Robert O. Marshall claimed he had parked the vehicle in a dark picnic area off the Garden State Parkway to inspect a tire. He further maintained that as he bent over someone struck him on the head and when he regained consciousness his wife was stretched across the front seat with two bullet holes in her back...
...horrified. Maria had been widely admired for her beauty, grooming, three teenage sons and her reputation for familial and civic probity. But even as Toms River mourned the loss, the police grew suspicious. Why would Robert Marshall pull into a deserted and officially closed picnic area to examine a tire when he could have used a safe, well- lighted toll plaza a few miles away? How come he was only tapped on the head while his wife was shot? More puzzling was the damaged tire. It had been slashed so severely that driving from Atlantic City would have been impossible...
Among the ashes at the scene were a number of beer bottles and pie tins. The front tire of one of the tractors was flat and melted onto...
American regional cooking remains well represented on the nation's bookshelves. But now, as palates tire of the green chili, blue cornmeal and black beans of the Southwest, attention is turning to the vivid and ethnically mixed cuisine of the Pacific Northwest -- with its salmon and oysters, wild berries and herbs, tree fruits and game. The best culinary guide to the region is Northwest Bounty by Schuyler Ingle and Sharon Kramis (Simon & Schuster; $18.95). The enticing recipes should inspire Americans across the country to try piquant specialties like pickled Walla Walla sweet onions and such cross- cultural inventions as Sichuan...