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...doing so, the association picked Cavalierout of several companies who had bid to transportabout 10,000 runners to the starting line and pickup those in need of medical attention. Thecontract is worth an estimated $25,000 to Libby'scompany...
Beating President Clinton in a pickup basketball game...
...gritty realism that the Zapruder footage brought to Oliver Stone's JFK. The blow-by- blow of the investigation, the arrests, the confessions, the plea bargains -- it's all in the can. There was even a play within a play when stakeout cameras captured Tonya saving her illegally parked pickup from a tow truck. The most hardened Tonya detractor must have momentarily rooted...
...next scene the same husband is aboard the Titanic, ardently seducing a cheeky lad from steerage who points out that the ship has become "tilty." In the scene after, the streetwise youth is a dim but pretty, gay disco pickup in the '70s. This sort of inventive time bending, accompanied by a catchall range of song styles to span the century, tryst by tryst, is what makes off- Broadway's Hello Again the one interesting musical of this scratchy season and its creator, composer-librettist-lyricist Michael John LaChiusa, the big breakthrough talent...
...journalism. What's more, at a time when the network- magazine shows are not only embracing more sensational material but also getting into serious trouble for employing some irresponsible techniques (as in Dateline NBC's use of explosive charges to hype a report on safety problems in General Motors pickup trucks) -- these second-class citizens of the news world believe they can legitimately demand respect...