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This time the family whose strangely assorted Linen hangs out to dry is an odd lot of small-town Virginians. Their matriarch, now dying peacefully, may have helped herself to widowhood with an ax some years ago and then dropped her defunct husband down a well. That possibility thrusts itself on her daughter Sybill, a middle-aged spinster who sees a hypnotist to have her subconscious unclogged. Her mother inconveniently expires before Sybill can begin an inquiry. To her siblings, that is just as well. They, and the cousins and in-laws who gather for the funeral, regard talk...
...inevitable: "Who is the weakest link?" - a reference to the TV game show where the worst-performing contestants get voted off. The reporter suggested it might be Blair himself, whose popularity has been flagging, especially compared with that of Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown. Labour's loudest grinding ax, economic competence, was potentially blunted by the collapse of Britain's last major carmaker, MG Rover; the government quickly announced a $284 million package to help with the consequences of 5,000 lost jobs. Opposition parties grumbled about the need for an official inquiry, but failed to convey how they...
Although the Schiavo case was tragic, the reality is that life-and-death decisions are made every day around the country. That this situation rose to such notoriety was shameful for everyone involved. The folks on both sides of the bitter controversy should cease all their ax grinding and let Terri rest in peace...
This year the charade is again under way. The White House began in February by sending Congress a $50 billion "deficit-reduction" package with full awareness that it would never pass. It sought to eliminate a dozen well-entrenched agencies. Predictably, all survived the congressional ax. In May the Senate passed a budget resolution that would cut the deficit by $56 billion in 1986 and $295 billion over three years, but only if the economy realizes some rosy assumptions: a growth rate of 4% over the next 3½ years, inflation holding at 4% and a steady decline in interest rates...
...Beanie, "a sassy girl gangster who sometimes wore trousers." Against his better judgment, our hero gets embroiled in the Whyos' various capers and feuds, including an internal power struggle involving their charismatic but cruel leader, Dandy Johnny, who sexually assaults his underlings and wears special boots tricked out with ax blades...