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...unlike the Beach Boys, the F.U.s don't want to win the heart of a surfer girl. They'd rather get in a fist-fight with her. The mere threat that comes with hardcore is enough to thrill half a band's target audience and keep the other half away from its live music. After all, there is a certain mystique about being punched out by a rock and roller with a shaved head and sippers stitched into his cheek. Or so the story goes...
...found himself astonished. Then, for the first time, he had an urge, as strong as a clenching fist, to kill them. His coat had a special change pocket cut laterally into the button flap. It was small, but large enough for a tiny, hammerless handgun he owned and sometimes, to his wife's horror, threatened to license and carry. In an instant, he moved his hand and, in a theatrical reflex, leveled a pointing finger at the retreating shapes. With the gun in hand, he knew, knew, he would have fired. Aiming for the legs. But he certainly could...
...dealer, bleeding like a side of beef in an abattoir, the Chinese sailor croaked out one word: 'Firelight' (a code word? or a dying man's resurrection of a beloved childhood memory?) and fell to the ground, sprawled out like an epileptic lobster, clutching in his fist loosened by the merciful kiss of death fire of another sort: a 20-carat, flawless blue diamond...
...swim team never reflected the problems she had with her housing situation. With fellow Co-Captain Jeanne Floyd, Calvert made Harvard's middle-distance corps one of the finest in the Ivy League and among the top in the entire East Coast. And by the end of her fist season in a Crimson suit, Calver had qualified for Nationals in two individual events, the 200 back and the 500 free, and as a member of the 800 freestyle relay...
...being made to look like some kind of ogre, who takes perverse pleasure in cutting government programs for the nation's needy. "My program hasn't hurt anybody," he has maintained "No one has been thrown out in the snow to die." Just last week, he repeatedly pounded his fist on the podium at a news conference and thunderingly accused the press of fostering the notion that reductions in Social Security benefits may be coming soon...