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...than Jackson's district court and it did have three judges examine the issue, as opposed to only one. But that was last year. His egregiously embarrassing computer literacy problems in the courtroom notwithstanding, Jackson simply knows best. (Although I'm praying he doesn't direct the anti-bundling animus against ruthless exploiters with the temerity to bundle such things as salt and pepper or cars and tires...
...pleasures--when you're not on the receiving end, at least. Our readers get wrathful at outspoken supporters of controversial politics, such as Lisa Bochard [NATION, May 24], shown with her M-16, whose recommendation that "teachers should be encouraged to have guns" earned the animus of 52: "When I read that, I had to scream." "Bochard's pathological relationship with her weapon makes me hope there are no little children who call her Mommy." "Pistol-packing pedagogues can teach the four Rs: readin', 'ritin', 'rithmetic and 'rmed response." "Instead of sending a disruptive student to the principal, the teacher...
...PARTY ANIMUS...
...piece about my father Walt Disney, Richard Schickel let his personal animus toward him overpower any objectivity. What is supposed to be biography is diatribe. Schickel put a sinister spin on every aspect of my father's life. It would have been impossible for the kind of man that Schickel portrays to create and produce the body of work that bears my father's name and imprint. No darkly driven, Scrooge-like character could have conceived those films, TV shows and amusement parks. Schickel should lighten up and undertake some serious research on this man, or he should leave...
Most of Siouxsie's songs were new ones from the band's upcoming album Anima Animus. She announced from the start that few of her songs would be from the past. "No MTV dumbing down here," she smirked. This all-new material found a receptive audience, as did the few older songs that The Creatures played: the beautiful "Miss the Girl," for which Sioux strapped on a bracelet with bells, was especially enjoyable, as were some of the new songs such as "Turn It On" and "Prettiest Thing...