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...usually starts at a social gathering when I decline a drink. I try to play it cool, but if I’m polite, I am also very obvious. An awkward exchange ensues wherein I’m compelled to admit that I’ve never had a drink. I don’t really have a reason...
...where the film’s creativity runs rampant, the plotting’s a little too timid for its own good. After raising the stakes with their last outing, “A Close Shave,” wherein the lives of the protagonists seem to be in genuine peril, the two reside in safer territory in “Were-Rabbit.” This time, anything that’s in mortal danger can generally be found at a salad...
...past General Dynamics and the F-16; past Fairchild Republic and its T-46 trainers; past the Army, testing Black Hawk helicopters; past McDonnell Douglas, at work on the F-15; and just beyond the Air Force and its antisatellite system; and comes to rest outside the Northrop hangar, wherein the Tigershark resides. Our innocent is not met by a sales rep; rather, Roy Martin, a test pilot, blond and angular and wearing a jumpsuit crosshatched by so many zippered pockets that he could carry a disassembled jeep around in his coveralls, takes the shopper...
...thing, he is really old (91). For another, he was visibly feeble, clinging to his walker and speaking haltingly. If he had to step out of the shadows, we would have preferred that he did so looking smart and knowing--more like a guy in a movie, wherein everyone is forever ageless, than like a senior citizen looking to supplement his Social Security...
...Lamont 5th floor–The fourth best deuce in the land is the best jerk in the land. The floor-to-ceiling semi-soundproof walls separating each stall create personal cubicles wherein all sorts of “business” goes down. (For my few loyal fans out there, this is indeed the third straight article in which I’ve referenced beating off in Lamont. That’s real...