Word: westing
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...clinic for the D.C. class, which can't agree on the time of day. Says Californian Leon Panetta, President Clinton's former chief of staff: "The public right now looks at Congress and sees a lot of meanness and partisanship and people behaving more like it's West Side Story than government by and for the people. So if a Governor comes along who looks as if he's trying to walk down the middle and get things done, that's something they could grow very comfortable with...
...ambulance rocketed me to Broome Hospital. The only medical team on the west coast that could deal with my injuries was more than 1,000 miles south, in Royal Perth Hospital, so the medics decided to fly me there. When I arrived, the doctors had me on the operating table for 13 hours straight. Several times they nearly lost me. I ended up in semistable condition, with tubes running in and out of me, and breathing through a ventilator. In effect, this machine was breathing for me, because my whole body, shattered as it was, couldn't make good...
...PREMISE: A black comedy set in the thouroughbred racing world of the American West, Simpatico is a play of betrayal and caustic wit. Pulitzer Prize-winner Sam Shepard uses his biting humor to expose the sleazy society of the high rollers and their hilarious confrontation with the world of white trash...
...once commented on his famed '60s performances: "You can only ride so many motorcycles and smoke so many joints"), is always expanding his repertoire. He stars in a children's film, Thomas and the Magic Railroad, scheduled for release next year. Also awaiting release is South of Heaven, West of Hell, also starring his daughter Bridget Fonda, Vincent Gallo, Vince Vaughn, Dwight Yoakam and Billy Bob Thornton. And in last year's memoir Don't Tell Dad, Peter Fonda recollects...
Jamisean Patterson, a first-time campaigner but a lifelong resident of West Cambridge, urged early retirement programs for longtime teachers whose instruction had grown stale...