(He glanced at Boot""s "TELL THE TRUTH" motto)I""ve done a lot of lying in my time.I""ve lied to men who wear belts.I""ve lied to men who wear suspenders.But I""d never be so stupid as to lie o a man who wears both beltandsuspenders.Boot: How""s that again?Tatum: You strike me as a cautious man.A man who checks and double-checks.So I""ll tell ya why I was fired.In New York, a story of mine brought on a libel suit.In Chicago, I started something with the publisher""s wife.In Detroit, I was caught drinking out of season.In Cleveland...Finding himself in desperate straits without employment in Albuquerque, the tarnished reporter""s only chance to get back as a hot-shot to the bigger markets in the East was to resume his work in the same field, so that he could turn his luck around with one blockbuster story ("just one good beat, a Tatum special").Preparations for the Approaching Stormy Hurricane:When the wind started to blow, Nora began to fasten he outer hotel window shutters, and to secure the boats on the pier with McCloud.Mrs.Hoggett sat up in bed, aggravated by the Duck""s strange quacking: "We""ve got to do something about that duck.At the time, the famed Atlantic City resort-casino own was in great disrepair - crumbling and deteriorating until gambling was legalized there in 1976 and the city was slowly being saved and revitalized by corporate gangsterism - but for the time being it was filled with bulldozers and construction sites for new casinos.He announced his plan ("the Alan Parsons Project") to the US President, and then went further - detailing how he would destroy more major US cities every hour on the hour, unless paid a ransom of $100 billion dollars.