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...outlet could ignore, one serious enough to bring down the President's chief strategist. As happened so often during the O.J. Simpson trial, the mainstream press had to acknowledge that the tabloids, and tabloid tactics, can sometimes unearth legitimate news. And the Star got another notch in its gun belt...
...appearances, Christopher Reeve is not moving. His hands lie in their black leather rests like fish on platters. Black straps hold them in place. A seat belt holds his midsection in place but is needed only when a spasm threatens to jolt his body from the chair. Otherwise he and the chair are one--the 6-ft. 4-in. frame of the man conforming to the contours of the black metal contraption that, with its array of tubes, dials, wheels and wires, looks to be part hospital, part tractor...
...some reason I panicked. I was sitting back in this chair, and I felt, 'I can't be here. I can't do this. Get me out. I can't. I don't trust it.' My arms were strapped down, the way they are now. A seat belt was put on me. My legs were strapped onto foot pedals. It was like being put in an electric chair...
There's Haley Barbour scripting things. The soothing, silken song he sings: "It seems as clear as heck to me We need a Houstonectomy." Rejecting Mack, the Rust Belt Four, McCain, Dole picked Jack Kemp, a man who shares your pain...
...terrorist, in any case, dreams of such results. Any one of those suitcases on the conveyor belt is the seedpod of our death. The furniture really does conceal monsters. Each rental truck is an apocalypse idling at the curb. Each 747 takes on some unsettling metaphysic of Jonah-eating whale, or Moby Dick. Paranoia renders nature and its objects darkly volitional, satanic. The intent of terrorism, we know, is to break down the boundaries and sane categories of the mind and to make everyone start thinking like a psychotic...