Word: towners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through the 100-acre open area and photograph one another in front of the surrounding monuments. But on New Year's Day, revelers arriving at the huge square found it virtually blocked off by hundreds of police standing at rigid attention. "What's happening?" asked one perplexed out-of-towner. "Any foreign dignitaries arriving?" That was hardly the cause for the show of force. Within hours, despite the police, the historic site was aswarm with protesting students, singing and chanting slogans. It was the largest illegal demonstration in the Chinese capital since the suppression of the Democracy Wall movement...
Complications ensue like crazy. One of them is a candidate for the New York City mayoralty, who made his pile in the TV tabernacle dodge. He is an outof- towner, really, who does not understand how things work in New York, and he wants to have Charley indicted for his sixth-to-last murder. Maerose, a more serious troublemaker, wants to take over her grandfather's operation. As usual with the author's recent entertainments, the fact that none of this makes much sense becomes a literary metaphor on the order of Melville's white whale, implying as it does...
...time. "We'll get a carpenter straight out, sir," says one apologetic bobby. "We have them on standby. For incidents such as this." But if the city is drained of color, there are rainbows in the language. One of No Surrender's pleasures for an out-of-towner is the discovery that wit and edge did not desert Liverpool when the Beatles went south...
...Baird & McGuire was the 14th worst site in the nation," says O'Donnell, "it was like lightning. I thought, 'I have an answer!' " The same answer, she thinks, explains why Mark's best boyhood friend now has Hodgkin's disease. It might be coincidence, a professionally skeptical out-of-towner suggests. She looks wounded and incredulous. "With a toxic site as impregnated with the yuckos as this...
...Ralph Towner and John Abercromble--Jonathan Swift...