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...degradable pulp pages of this monthly. At no extra cost, Black Mask came wrapped in an irony. It was founded with $500 in 1920 by the journalist and scholar H.L. Mencken and the playwright George Jean Nathan as a way of financing the unprofitable Smart Set, their magazine of uptown wit and sophisticated prose. The "louse," as Mencken called his detective journal, was an immediate success, and in six months he sold it for $100,000, the price of 10 million words...
...hobo, fortified wines like Thunderbird and Night Train are the beverages of choice. On Jan. 1, the city of Portland, Oregon, with firm backing from Mayor Bud Clark, banned the sale of the firewater in the Skid Road area downtown. Trouble is, the street people began migrating to tonier uptown neighborhoods to buy their favorite drinks, unnerving well- heeled shoppers and merchants...
They came close enough, though, and for a long time one of the seminal forces in all of rock lay dormant. The Everly Brothers, who matched the lofting harmonies of mountain music to the uptown soul of rhythm and blues, sang with a single heart. Their hits -- like Bye Bye Love, Wake Up Little Susie, Bird Dog -- were history everyone could hum. But rock changed when the British hit in the early '60s, and the Everlys had a tough time hanging on, to their success and each other. "Rock 'n' roll was an American invention," Phil says...
...into Beautiful Stranger Marcie (Rosanna Arquette) at a mid-town diner as each pretended to enjoy a solitary meal. In no time at all, the two exchange phone numbers, and after checking the cable T.V. schedule for the evening, Paul decides to try his luck with the lady from uptown. Tempting him with the prospect of purchasing one of her off-beat roommate's bagel and cream cheese sculptures, Marcie invites our hero to... what else?... her loft for a post--midnight nightcap. And so another unsuspecting Daniel enters the lion...
...experience and cohesion of the starting unit was highlighted by the Crimson's second half effort against MIT--when sloppy play by a line-up combining starters and second-stringers gave the Engineers the impression they belonged on the same field with their uptown neighbors...