Word: third
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three years, agrees to go out with a motorcycle cop who has been pursuing her. Just a casual dinner date at the local hotel, he promises. "Get a room," she says. Desmond, the longtime butler to a wealthy industrialist, makes a confession. Years ago, the boss's third wife found out about his philandering and used Desmond to take revenge. Guess...
...politicians' alleged secret lives was that they were guilty of malicious hypocrisy on matters of life and death. One outing victim had endorsed legislation allowing hospitals to test patients for AIDS without their consent. Another backed a ban on funding to school programs that describe homosexuality as normal. A third supposedly failed to provide adequate public AIDS services. Yet in an odd twist that underscores the uneasy position of gays in society, the demonstrators were attacking enemies by embracing each as one of their...
Ruben Blades is losing his patience. Dressed in a flashy magenta jacket and a black narrow-brimmed hat, he fidgets with his breakfast at Pluto's restaurant, a greasy spoon in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn. He is on his third cup of coffee when Spike Lee walks in and takes a seat at the counter. "Giant, see the paper?" Blades says, holding up a copy of the New York Post...
...been too fond of the city-planted tree in front of their castle-like abode. In fact, Harvard lore has it that the poonsters have been trying to kill off the hapless arbor for many a year. But former Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, never one to be bested by third-rate humorists, has turned the tables yet again by designating the structure which once housed Elmer W. Green as "Freedom Square." The freedom-loving capitalist Malcolm Forbes would be proud. Members of The Lampoon could not be reached for comment...
...been under the impression that insomnia was a luxury available only to the well-rested. Unfortunately, I was incredibly tired my first night as an insomniac--although I was kind of anthropologically curious about the event--and I continued to be tired the second, and the third. I went through four days of work on about 14 hours of sleep...