Word: virgines
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...mast removed and lashed to the deck, chugs by under power, its crew bundled against the autumn chill and waving as much to keep warm as to greet the Peckinpaugh and its crew. Other pleasure craft slide by as the morning wears on. Their destinations: Florida, the Bahamas, the Virgin Islands...
...small stage, that is, where someone has thoughtlessly left his boom box blaring in the background. "Love," the lyrics offer, "makes you go blind." Here, No Small Affair joins a host of recent movies-from Footloose to Flashdance to The Last American Virgin-that have tried to squeeze some plot in between blaring bids for Top 40 exposure...
...joke about the lack of respect he has received since returning to Plains, Ga With a nod to Rodney Dangerfield. Carter spoke of a Trivial Pursuit question recently posed to him: "Do you know who said. When I look at my children I wished I had remained a virgin" After brief applause, Carter said. "I he answer was my mother...
...Torrijos years, he worked on a novel, Monsignor Quixote, about the adventures of a simple village priest abroad in the world. In Panama, he was a real-life counterpart. By his own evidence, he served as the go-between in a kidnaping, learned about the hoax of the "Virgin that perspires," failed to write a book about Panama, finally located a well-made rum punch, and saw a "horseman [ride] by carrying a cock on his hand in the way a waiter carries a tray...
...scientist to Paris to plant a "softbomb," or programmed booby trap, in the computer's meteorologic software. The key to the ploy is the information relayed by the U.S. National Weather Service to meteorologic centers all over the world. When the atmospheric pressure on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands is reported to be 1,029 millibars, the trap is sprung and all the Soviet computers connected to the Craig 1 suddenly begin churning out gibberish. After an initial panic, two Soviet programmers uncover the first softbomb and manage to disarm it. But they know that there are other...