Word: wets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asked Sabich if "the lever [the safety switch] is on the spot; is it safe? And he said, 'Yes, it won't fire.' " Weedman interjected, "And then the gun went off?" Her eyes filled with tears, Longet said, "Yes." In the gallery, Williams was wet-eyed...
Tuesday, January 11--The alarm rang early, but had I known that the french toast at breakfast would tear as easily as a wet kleenex, I would have stayed in the room and eaten my Scotties...
Around holiday season, stocking-stuffer items like The Slipper and the Rose usually show up, all covered in glitter and good will. These gaudy little baubles are easy enough to tolerate in the floodtide of fellowship that ebbs and flows around Christmas. Holidays are over, however, a cold wet January is upon the land, and The Slipper and the Rose lingers on, looking as foolish as Cinderella hotfooting it out of the palace as her ball gown turns to rags...
...publications. After turning the News front page into a graphic jungle of black boxes and red arrows, Murdoch provided a daily diet of rape and mayhem, tortured tots and killer bees. One classic story: "A divorced epileptic, who told police she was buried alive in a bathtub full of wet cement and later hanged upside down in the nude, left San Antonio for good this weekend. The tiny, half-blind woman, suffering from diabetes, recounted for the News a bizarre horror story filled with rape, torture and starvation...
...that flares up with emotional violence and pain, The Trip Back Down is a play sadly lacking in astonishment. It repeats itself, it is predictable, and it is a soapy, sentimental bore. Bobby Horvath (John Cullum) is a middle-aging stock-car racer whose psyche is skidding on a wet track. His earlier dreams of flashing under the wire first in the Indianapolis 500 have now become the wearying nightmares of a perpetual loser. He has come home to Mansfield, Ohio, to recoup his losses, possibly by never racing again, but at least by making peace with the wife...