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...just for the hell of it, there was this old boy who was not brain damaged so much as he was impetuous and romantic, the sort of fellow who, but for the grace of poor vision and ten thumbs, a trick knee and an unhealthy dependence on bonded bourbon, might have made a fighter pilot. Lately he has been captivated and obsessed by some of the slickest ads in print, the ones depicting the F-20 Tigershark poised on a liquid mirror out in the Mojave Desert. What is it about this bird, he wonders, that has caused...
...leave the old boy here, several happy hours still ahead of him. He will never be able to say he flew the thing, but for the moment, in his mind, he can at least point and shoot with the best, to say nothing of his prowess with the pickle button. --By Gregory Jaynes
...back to the dingy window. All around are other Rockwell touches: the sad-eyed but deeply moved traveler in the top left corner, the man of affairs with his cigar and the New York Times in the lower left. And in the center of the painting is the little boy with his floppy ears, sheared neck and Sunday best, edged off-center on his chair to get away from the slightly menacing young men with their cigarettes and to be nearer his only earthly security of the moment, his grandmother...
...call them a cab. Call them off. Call them irresponsible. But call them on the phone, and they don't call back. Not that there is ever really any need to explain the logic of plots on The A-Team. On one of next month's episodes, British Rocker Boy George shows up, more or less playing himself--just as Mr. T does every week. It seems Mr. T has long been a fan of the flamboyant singer. "He admires Boy's style of telling it like it is and that he does his own thing," explains T's agent...
...first the opera does appear to be something of a rewrite. The story certainly recalls La Traviata: Parisian Courtesan Magda meets innocent Country Boy Ruggero, loves him and then, out of concern for his family's honor, leaves him. And as in La Bohème, there is a joyous café scene and a secondary pair of quarrelsome lovers. Yet the feel of La Rondine is very different, for Magda is a more worldly-wise heroine than either Violetta or Mimi. Her affair with Ruggero is a self-deluding attempt to recapture a lost moment from her youth...