Word: unlit
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Murphy said that complaints about unlit bicyclists prompted this week’s response...
...Establishment comedian represented by Alan King; the other is the younger, edgier, anti-Establishment comic represented by George Carlin. What they have in common is simple: "They're funny." For Seinfeld, that's the gold standard. A young Alan King appears onscreen in a tuxedo, holding an unlit cigar. Seinfeld looks on reverently. "The cigar confers authority, wisdom, arrogance," says Seinfeld, "all key elements of being a comedian...
Ultimately, Seinfeld is a traditionalist. For him, there's no shame in being Alan King in a tuxedo holding an unlit cigar and the audience's attention. "In fact, it's a high calling," he says. "An honor." Still, wouldn't you be reaching more people and having more of an effect if you were on TV? "Reaching more people, yes. Having more of an effect, no." But what makes you get on that plane every week? Is it the applause? He answers slowly. "Not really. The laugh is the vote...
...separatists dead. CHINA Stairway from Hell Four school officials in northern China were arrested after 21 teenage students were crushed to death and more than 50 injured when a staircase collapsed as they were leaving school after dark. An investigation in Fengzhen, Inner Mongolia, revealed the staircase was unlit, the banisters in the newly built school were made from thin steel ties instead of welded pipes and the staircase was too narrow for use by the school's large number of pupils. U.S. Gore Speaks Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned that a hasty attack on Iraq would "severely...
Tech was a bargain for about a nanosecond. With the tech-laden NASDAQ having surged 40% since early April, the stocks are starting to resemble an unlit cherry bomb on the Fourth of July. Consider that the average blue-chip tech stock trades at 40 times this year's earnings, up sharply from 29 just six weeks...