Word: barreled
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...widespread is this sort of disaffection, says author John Taylor in a sizzling New York magazine article, that a double-barreled social phenomenon now threatens the real exercise of civil liberties. The first barrel is "victimology." The other is what George Washington University sociologist Amitai Etzioni calls the "rights industry" -- the creation by individuals and special-interest groups of freshly minted freedoms and prerogatives that must be upheld even when they are foolishly asserted, and whose transgression is -- always -- a matter for outcry...
...have a spare astringency, which is just the right tone in which to tell these tales of burdened hearts and spirits that, against all odds and expectations, refuse to * be broken. You can hear House of Hope pouring out of the car radio this summer as Thelma and Louise barrel along in their T-Bird convertible into the mythical heart of American pop culture. When they stop to refuel, they'll find Childs right there. Outlaws of the heart, all of them...
...episode is a ghoulish black comedy that aims less for thrills or scares than for gleefully evoked squirms. The show, garnering high ratings in its third season on HBO, demonstrates another quality rare in TV: it is improving with age. Introduced by a cackling, skeletal "crypt keeper," the stories barrel along with logic-bending abandon; even when the ending fizzles (a frequent problem), getting there is a wild ride. Among the summer's highlights so far: Beau Bridges and Tony Goldwyn as brothers who trade sadistic practical jokes in a morgue, Malcolm McDowell as a soft-hearted vampire who opts...
Making one's own, as a growing number of amateurs have discovered, is not hard either. All you need is some decent wine and a starter kit (cost: $79 or so), which includes a barrel and a "mother" -- the bacterial agent that in three weeks or so transforms the wine into acetic acid. There can be a downside to the hobby. Jeanette and Pierre Garneau of Nantucket, Mass., started producing small amounts a few years ago and now sell 1,500 bottles a year to New England specialty stores. The problem, says Jeanette, is that "we always smell like vinegar...
...week, government officials admitted that they had "underestimated the complexity" of the overhaul and pleaded for restoration of millions of dollars that Congress might cut from the Weather Service's budget. Congress members have not only balked at the soaring cost of the program, but have also raised pork-barrel concerns about plans to reduce the number of NWS offices around the country from 249 to 115 -- a reduction made possible by the greater power of the new technology. "It's a minor version of the military-base closings," says one NWS official...