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...BINGO NIGHT AT THE MONTGOMERY County Fairgrounds was passing slowly. But when a visitor started asking questions about Bill Clinton's plans to raise taxes, voices rose and necks were craned to catch the commotion. "Look, just because I have a little money to gamble with doesn't mean I can afford any more energy taxes or income taxes or any damn taxes," said Doug Smith Jr., 46, whose thick and callused hands testify to his part-time job as a carpet installer. "Enough!" Heads nodded up and down along the wooden table...
...complaining you get to do in the meantime. I saw a comedian on TV the other day whose advice was to "Live every day as if it's your last--lots of whining, moaning and general pitifulness." Bingo...
...Barbara Bush a run for her photo op. Looking not at all powerful sitting at a child-size desk, she leaned her head on her hand like any middle schooler perplexed by long division and confided that math "was hard" for her too. She rewarded the winner of multiplication bingo with two stickers on his forehead and a kiss in between...
...Harvard's Department of Athletics is usually as clean as a church bingo game. No pay-for-play scandals, no recruitment packages worthy of pro teams--in short, no blatant ethical violations. And, consequently, no nosepoking NCAA investigators rummaging around 60 JFK St. for examples of wrongdoing...
...fact that rumors are going around can become a story. Over pate and wine on the press plane (these ain't the scruffy boys on the bus anymore), you hear that Marilyn Quayle is sick. You call a couple Republican Party officials who heard Dan Quayle might be dropped. Bingo. Come filing time, you can write a fresh story...