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...Daddy of Supersonic P-P-Pulse Rate. Each piece is guaranteed to knock a couple years off any poor pup's life. And "The Bells," especially, is a terrific way to round off your Poe-portion. Find yourself getting sleepy? Little Weak? Sorta drowsy? Recite "The Bells" aloud into a tape deck, pop your recording into an industrial strength ghetto blaster, and let-errrrrip, full volume, for dozing neighbors. Run-DMC's got nothin' on Poe...though they might make a mean team. "The TIN-too-NAB-yoo-LAY-shun of duh BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS! HUNH...
...came to a head one day in November 1985 when Pierson and Classmate Sean Pica, both then 16, were sitting in homeroom at Newfield High School in Selden, N.Y., discussing an article in a local paper about an abused wife who enlisted someone to murder her husband. Pierson wondered aloud who would be crazy enough to undertake such a deadly commission. Pica promptly said he would volunteer -- if the price was right. Three months later, as James Pierson, a 42-year-old electrician, left his Long Island home for work one morning, Pica shot him five times with...
Several Senators on the panel did not take such a sanguine view of Bork's philosophical backpedaling. Before the hearing, many lawmakers were concerned that Bork was too rigid in his conservative ideology. During the judge's testimony, they wondered aloud if he was, instead, too changeable. "What troubles me is the very significant and profound shifts," said Pennsylvania Republican Arlen Specter, who has remained undecided. "Where's the predictability in Judge Bork?" Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy fired a more serious charge at the witness. Accusing Bork of mendaciously softening his ( views to ensure Senate approval, Leahy called the judge...
...illiteracy. The Cosby home echoed with the sounds of people making up funny stories and listening to others on the radio. Bill's mother Anna would tuck him and his three brothers into their pajamas, the kind with booties sewn in and flaps in the back, and read aloud from Twain and Swift, the brothers Grimm and the Bible...
...ignore it completely (Kemp and Pete du Pont). Characteristically, Bush is somewhere in the middle. Recently, the Vice President timidly allowed, "If all the domestic spending has been cut that can be cut, then and only then would ((I)) consider the other alternative." That alternative, too frightening to whisper aloud, is higher taxes...