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...said. "They were the only game in town." So the Democrats have launched their own campaign. Taking their inspiration from the Harry and Louise ads that helped sink Clinton's health-care plan last year, the Democrats have rushed out their own commercials, in which a young couple worry aloud about the plan while the woman's frightened mother listens...
...choice in the book is between howling misery and howling laughter, and the reader veers toward laughter. Long passages should be read aloud: "My spankings were a kind of family sporting event ... Unless Mother managed to get me down in a corner, she would have to hold one of my wrists to keep me within flyswatter distance while she flailed in my direction. At best, she made contact about ten percent of the time ... Locked together this way, the two of us would spin from room to room with Grandma at our perimeter in her wheelchair, scolding and bitching...
After the Time Warner shareholders' meeting last month, Tucker and Bennett aired their grievances directly in a testy meeting with company executives, among them Levin and Fuchs. It started badly: when company officials refused Tucker's request that they read aloud the lyrics of Big Man with a Gun, a song by the alternative-rock group Nine Inch Nails (sample: "Maybe I'll put a hole in your head/ You know, just for the f---- of it"), Tucker angrily walked out of the meeting for a time. Bennett's direct-as-a-bullet charges ("Are you folks morally disabled?") were...
Geller also interprets the Hebrew prayerthanking God for food in a way somewhat differentfrom his rabbinical ancestors. As the prayer ischanted aloud in Hebrew, Geller illustrates themeaning of the words with his hands, elicitinglaughter when he cuts with an imaginary scissorswhen signing the concept of the holy covenant (acontract sealed by circumcision...
...member board would balk at reforming itself. Among other things, investors wanted a smaller board with fewer members over the age of 70. Grace arrived in a wheelchair last week to address his last board meeting as chairman. Weakened by radiation treatments, he was unable to read aloud the full text in which he condemned "the scheme" used to oust him from power. But when the meeting was over, Grace and eight other company directors, most of them over 70, had nonetheless agreed to leave the board...