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...throw off wisecracks and elbows in a barrage of no-nonsense, forward-driven bursts of speed that threaten always to whirl out of control. At the Olympic Games last year, one of the most frequent sights was of Jordan (or Magic Johnson) alternately delighting in Sir Charles' abandon and trying to rein him in. When Barkley published his autobiography last year -- Outrageous! -- he compared some of his teammates' skills unfavorably with those of his grandmother and then, turning on his ghostwriter, threatened to become the first person in history to sue himself for libel...
...term. Meanwhile, for the first time, fully 50% of the public disapproves of his performance as President. Dismayed by Clinton's preference for taxes over spending cuts, 58% of the public believes Clinton is a "tax-and-spend liberal." Such dismal ratings will make it easier for legislators to abandon the President in future contests. "At this moment," said a top political adviser, "nobody is afraid of him, and he has to find a way to change that...
...fireworks ad that Farrell spotted in a dirty magazine; on the album, the phrase porno for pyros is also used as a lyrical description of last year's L.A. uprising. That kind of juxtaposition -- psychedelic sexuality matched with social commentary -- is the strength of the album. The wild abandon of the imagination is connected with the empirical world. "Ever since the riots/ All I really wanted/ Was a black girlfriend," croons Farrell on one song, a droll commentary on capricious white liberal guilt...
Finally, Annas says, "we more or less abandon dying patients. When there is nothing more medicine can offer, we turn them over to the nursing staff, and we don't see them anymore...
...review" quickly degenerates into a question-and-answer session where the students abandon any pretension of having paid attention all semester and the professor any hope that they did. The audience asks thinly disguised questions directly from the exam sheet, and more often then not, the professor responds with a neatly packaged answer--dashing the hopes of anyone who bothered to prepare that they haven't spent their time and effort in vain...