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During the Revolution, patriotic island families hid their cattle from hungry British troops who repeatedly raided the island looking for supplies. But since those days, islanders have been more welcoming to boat-loads of summer visitors which furnish much of the island's economy...
...family sitcoms of the Good Times ilk: streetwise sass drenched in sentimental mush. John Mendoza, who plays a newly divorced sportswriter in NBC's The Second Half, is a mellower, and less accomplished, performer, who is also defeated by tired gag situations -- the inept single guy who can't furnish an apartment or get a date without stumbling over his feet...
Those who wish to try their luck abroad are encouraged by the snakeheads -- who then link them with underground networks. Most of the arrangements are done by international crime syndicates, which cut deals with desperate families, then draw up the escape plan, procure the forged documents and furnish the transportation. One kingpin of the racket is Big Boss Ma (not his real name), a Thai gangster of Chinese descent who funnels mainland Chinese through Bangkok. Seated in the lotus position on a teak sofa at home in Mae Sai, a northern Thai town, Big Boss exudes confidence and affluence...
Much of the initial fun of Memories of the Ford Administration stems from the disparity between what Clayton has been asked to do -- help furnish a scholarly archive of the Ford years, an activity in itself slightly risible -- and what he actually does, which is to tell the NNEAAH exactly what he was thinking, writing, feeling and doing during the roughly 2 1/2 years in question. And he lets his interrogators know, early on, that he wants to do it his own way: "((Retrospect editors: Don't chop up my paragraphs into mechanical 10-line lengths. I am taking your...
Schwelling said the group hopes to obtain a permanent meeting place and furnish it with a grill, pool table, pinball machine, large-screen TV, VCR and stereo...