Let the songs be loud and cheerful, and not chirpings or pulings.

Political power, after all, is the only game in town that ensures unfettered access to the nation's oil riches.

In some ways, she hated her own whiteness, and secretly she lusted for the Cuban busboys at Wolfie's to gang-bang her late one night in the kitchen after closing.

Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.