Word: barreled
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...phone, ran errands and dusted Fukuda's shoes. He finally took his father's place in 1972, but the years with Fukuda were well spent. For an L.D.P. baron, Fukuda was famously incorruptible, and Koizumi watched his mentor lose power to factions of the party that had perfected pork-barrel politics. Koizumi today rants about the waste in government spending largely because he watched his enemies in the biggest L.D.P. faction shove fat contracts to construction bosses who delivered votes and campaign war chests in return...
...deserves better, and it has been getting it. The acclaim began in 1992 when Sedaris read aloud on NPR from The SantaLand Diaries, a prickly extended sketch about working at Macy's as a Christmas elf. A book contract for a collection of essays followed. In Holidays on Ice, Barrel Fever and Naked, Sedaris found a persona and a groove as a chain-smoking, movie-obsessed, gay misfit who got dark laughs from his mother's bout with cancer, from a painful sojourn at a nudist colony and from his fumbled sexual awakening at summer camp. "What are you," screams...
...under Fukuda, himself a bright, squeaky-clean policy wonk who frequently took on the LDP's most powerful clique, headed by Kakuei Tanaka and filled with politicians with cozy ties to special interest groups like construction bosses, farmers and war veterans. This is the faction most dependent on pork-barrel politics, campaign war chests and the obtaining of government largesse and protectionism in exchange for votes. "Fukuda was insulated from all the pork-barreling, and that had an effect on Koizumi," says Naoki Tanaka. Under Fukuda's tutelage, the future Prime Minister came to understand?and loathe?the corrosive influence...
...against traditional gender roles in music and disdain towards the mass marketing of an art form) was deliberately sold as bandwagon rebellion. As Bart Simpson said while the Smashing Pumpkins played in front of him at Lollapalooza, “making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel,” and through deliberate and contrived publicity, the UK-banned Never Mind the Bollocks became a No. 1 album, and Nirvana moved so-called “alternative” music into the oxymoronic mainstream—their major-label debut, Nevermind, sold over eight million copies...
...barren Alaska instead of Texas, where they have people and baseball teams, he liked the ones about how only tiny women play the harp, why hotels give you shower caps and sewing kits but no toothpaste, and how bathroom signs are the only places in society where a thin, barrel-chested man can be next to a dumpy woman shaped like a triangle. I was feeling pretty good about myself until he complimented me on the joke I sent him months ago, when Gary Condit's publicist hinted that Chandra Levy slept around: "Ever since Condit accused Chandra Levy...