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...Crash, screaming, wild music.] Honey, I'm home! [More screaming, wild music, sound of axe hitting door.] Heeeeeeere's Johnny! [Wild music building to crescendo...
...ministers and parliamentarians constantly refer to the way the Dutch milk cows, the Americans collect taxes and the Germans dispose of garbage, as if Western practice is the standard by which everything must now be judged. As cultural historian James Billington notes in his book The Icon and the Axe, "Repeatedly, Russians have sought to acquire the end products of other civilizations without the intervening process of slow growth and inner understanding...
...more realistic example: Last Thursday, The Wall Street Journal ran a front-page story about the rumors that Quayle might get the axe. On his way out of the Journal's Washington bureau, the story's primary author was asked what he thought the chances were that Quayle would be dumped. "A hundred to one," he said. The Journal ran the story anyway...
...know what's going to happen if the axe falls and says, 'X' hundred thousand dollars have to go," Toland says...
...fears may not be unfounded. Two Little Axe, Okla., families that brought suit against morning prayers in school in 1981 became targets of relentless harassment. The children were repeatedly asked by teachers why they didn't believe in God, and one youngster found an upside-down cross hung on his locker. One evening while members of one of the families were at a football game, their house was fire bombed and burned down...