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...without cutting Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. The Dole campaign called the plan credible in every dimension, saying the cut would be paid for by increased efficiency in government and lower administrative spending in non-defense programs, and by auctioning off publicly owned broadcast bandwidths to the highest bidder. The White House was on the warpath before the plan was even released, calling the plan "a collection of gimmicks, double counting and voodoo growth assumptions," which would blow a huge hole in the deficit. "Dole is looking for a bold strike which combines his economic proposal, his vice presidential choice...
...looks so breakably pure as Genvieve, replete with little bows and white gloves, that even she seems relieved by her deflowerment. Her feline mother slinks about in tight black cocktail dresses and blood red suits, exuding sheer power via over-ripe sensuality and bartering Genvieve off to the highest bidder. Madeline, the 'plain girl' whom Guy eventually settles for, looks exactly like the goody-good martyr she is, with immaculately well brushed hair and the inevitable hairband. Measured against these luscious charicatures of the many faces of woman, the two male characters are almost obliterated...
...often a work in progress. Filmmakers routinely release "director's cuts" with the controversial scenes they were forced to excise restored in all their superfluously erotic or gratuitously gory wonder; the long-lost drafts of long-dead novelists are disinterred, hyped and sold to the highest Hollywood bidder; obscure demo tracks made by disbanded rock groups are remixed, released, and everybody closes their eyes and pretends John just went out for a very long smoke...
Wednesday's sale featured one of the auction's few pieces of genuine historical significance, the Louis XVI desk on which President John F. Kennedy signed the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Estimate: $20,000 to $30,000; sale price: $1,432,500. The buyer was that frequent successful bidder, Anonymous...
...gravely mistaken, good manners and perfect unity were not mentioned by Woodrow Wilson in 1918 as a prerequisite for independent nationhood. I have yet to be informed of a universal association of national standardization which ensures that imperfect countries are closed down and sold to the highest bidder...