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...night we visited the casino, lost a good deal of money and emerged, inebriated on over-priced booze, well after the last train had left for Nice. Finally, just after 4 a.m., we persuaded a cab driver to take us the 20 miles back to our hotel, for money upfront...
...intangible that's not in the statistics. It's an underlying negative bias," explains the Celtics' first-round pick in the 1970 draft. "Upfront no one's thinking about losing, but in the back of his mind, he's wondering...
Sara (Author Davidson has made herself one of the central characters in her book) was a second-generation Californian, a freelance journalist who "wanted to be the Girl of the Sixties brand-new, streamlined, groovy daring upfront, telling it like it is. I also wanted to stop wearing a bra, but Jane and I worried that it would cause our breasts to droop...
Clearly, it was to be an afternoon for euphemism. Not that language--particularly as handled by the sensation-seeking press--has ever been entirely upfront in dealing with the tawdrily notorious Miss Renay...