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...lost the championship of Rhode Island two years running? When the the Pats lost to Miami, 52-0, I thought I could fix up a trade, me for John Mazur, but allthe Pats would offer was an autographed picture of Brian Dowling, two kicking tees, and a hot dog vendor to be named later. You don't suppose the Crimson touch football team could use a little coaching help? What the hell, you guys would win 23-2 even if your coaching staff consisted of George McGovern, John Yovicsin, and the general who told the Light Brigade to charge...
Tran Van Hai, 34, has been hiding out in Saigon's labyrinthine alleyways since 1965. Reason: he is trying to avoid military service. While his wife works as a vendor, Hai does odd jobs in the neighborhood; together they make enough to care for their six children. When the police come, as they do with increasing frequency these days, he ducks down the maze of passages in his ramshackle neighborhood or hides between the wall panels of his house...
Blacaman the Good, Vendor of Miracles is a wicked little fable about an itinerant worker of cures and exactly how he acquired his specialty. Blacaman is the kind of brazen fellow Garcia Marquez obviously enjoys. The only thing he refuses to do is raise the dead, because, he says, "They're murderous with rage at the one who disturbed their state." He knows better, however. Offered the road to sainthood, he declines: "The truth is that I'd gain nothing by being a saint after being dead; an artist is what I am." And he actually manages...
...only enlarged capital sources for industry but has started an epidemic of investment fever. Many workers are also buying stock with their own money, and the Sao Paulo stock exchange is one of the world's most active bourses; volume last year rose by 250%. One enterprising stock vendor even sends agents out in canoes to sell along the rivers of the interior...
...noisy hilarity of a swinging singles bar audible in the background. Similarly, the hospital-visit-to-an-ailing-aunt ploy is apt to prove a dud with a boss whose receiver is also picking up the strains of a jukebox or the cries of a ballpark hot dog vendor. To prevent such pretexts from collapsing, help is finally at hand: alibi tapes...